Creating Internet Intelligence Wild Computing, Distributed Digital Consciousness, and the Emerging Global Brain

Creating Internet Intelligence is an interdisciplinary treatise exploring the hypothesis that global computer and communication networks will one day evolve into an autonomous intelligent system, and making specific recommendations as to what engineers and scientists can do today to encourage and sh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goertzel, Ben
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2002, 2002
Edition:1st ed. 2002
Series:IFSR International Series in Systems Science and Systems Engineering
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Coming Evolution
  • 1 MIND AS NETWORK
  • 2. A Practical Definition of Intelligence
  • 3. Elements of a Philosophy of Mind
  • 4. Complexity and Emergence
  • 5. The Psynet Model of Mind
  • 2 RECONCEPTUALIZING THE INTERNET
  • 6. The Network Is the Computer Is the Mind (Is the World)
  • 7. A Fourfold Model of Internet Information Space
  • 8. The Internet Economy as a Complex System
  • 9. The Emerging Global Brain
  • 3 BUILDING INTERNET MINDS AND WORLDS
  • 10. Systematizing Internet Agent Interactions
  • 11. Webworld
  • 12. Webmind
  • 13. Webmind on the Commercial Net
  • 14. Toward Superhuman Intelligence
  • 15. An Initial Architecture for Internet Intelligence
  • References
  • Appendix 1. Specification of the KNOW Knowledge
  • Appendix 2. Goertzel versus Rosen
  • Appendix 3. A Formal Vocabulary for Complexity Science
  • Appendix 4. Design for an Evolutionary Quantum Compute
  • Appendix 5. Universe as Network