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From: bc@dias.nswc.navy.mil (Bruce Copeland)
Subject: Re: Global Brain
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References: <plugge.160.2E814A6A@cs.rulimburg.nl> <1994Sep23.142329.21831@ericsson.se> <COETMEUR.94Sep26145143@moon.icdc.fr>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 19:21:44 GMT
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In article <COETMEUR.94Sep26145143@moon.icdc.fr>, coetmeur@icdc.fr (Alain Coetmeur) writes:
|> 
|> Am I right when I say that :
|> 
|> the net itself is not alive for the reason you say
|> 
|> when you incorporate the peoples behind, it is a very complex
|> system that has all the properties of living systems ...
|> 
|> I think that it is the case for many systems build
|> over living element
|> 
|> like:
|>   multi-cellular living beeing
|>   ant-hill
|>   ecosystems
|>   human society
|> 
|> ... 
|> 
|> IMO as soon as living beeing are connected
|> in a strong way, there is a strong probability that
|> the overall system became living, and even
|> have greater live property that the element.
|> 
|> when will GAIA be a reality instead on a myth
|> (cf asimov books...)
|> 
|> --
|> =======
|> Alain Coetmeur, Informatique-CDC R&D dept.
|> coetmeur@icdc.fr


That's correct.  The net is only a part of the nervous system. As the 
information processing speed and capability of the entire system (which 
includes us human peons) increases, the likelihood of the system being 
self-aware increases.  It is really only a matter of time, perhaps even 
in our lifetime.

I personally look forward to it.  Perhaps we'll be able to make a 
sustained investment in space exploration then and certainly SETI would 
be funded. (It would really want to find out if it was alone!).

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