Think about a colony of army ants. One ant isnt very smart, but thousands of them are connected and comminucate through chemical scents. The colony as a group behaves in a very smart way, it decides when its time to nest and where, when to move on, where to go etc.
In the same way, could a network of interconnected humans be smarter than one person, or atleast some-what intelligent?
Another example would be a human mind, its made up of billions of simple neurons that send and recieve signals in a simple, logical way.
2006-09-23 00:59:52 · 16 answers · asked by Sunny D 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Infact, an ant doesnt know how smart the colony is, it cant possibly comprehend this. So if the internet is working in a rational way, can we mite be too narrow-minded to realize.
2006-09-23 01:24:11 · update #1
Any colony behaves in a relatively smart way only because we are able to perceive it as such. Time and space compressed into one, the beholder sees the collective effort of humans' endeavour in an overall singular direction, whose parts are divergent and autonomous, only to weave back into one.
Notional hive mind may not be aware of itself, it proceeds in ways to persist and subsist, not necessarily to exist, with time and space immediate to the next consciousness, with the observer in awe of self conciousness, pondering circles of indefinite tangents.
2006-09-23 08:13:37 · answer #1 · answered by pax veritas 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the whole of an ant colony can not develop anything a single ant can given time.
computers are not capaple of growth,
Just going faster and following the directions
the "intelligence" that a computer seems to have is actually human intelligence being carried at higher speed.
a compter can follow a list of instructions to come to a decision,
but can not make a decision that is not on the list
and too, when computers are linked on the internet,
they are not sharing processing power,
they are copying lists of intructions back and forth.
I have programed a computer in the past,
all the languages basicly have a few functions just depends on how you describe them
I guess what I am saying is that there is no intelligence in a computer, just a macine following a ( sometimes complex) list of directions, and are not capable or moving beyond that list.
no matter how many of them you have, they are still bound by that.
2006-09-23 02:56:40 · answer #2 · answered by papeche 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This internet should be the greatest mind joining system ever created. Unfortunately, just as we do with everything else we seek of the internet what we seek of our selves. This means that we expect others to verify our thoughts and positions. When they don't we simply change the web site just like we turn the channel on a television. If we are ever able to begin our self-identities with human being, we will discover our minds are as one and the internet will be a rubber band connecting our minds through expression. Maybe, 25-100 years from today (that's being optimistic).
2006-09-23 03:11:45 · answer #3 · answered by JazzyJB 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is, we wouldn't know any more than the ants do as you point out. But also, the Internet itself - super-smart though it might be - would not know any more than the hive does. It would take some even higher (much higher) intelligence to observe the intelligence of the Internet in order to explain why poor humanity, possessed of such simple minds, could have possibly created Stickam.
:-)
Xan Shui,
Philosophic Philanthropist, Honest Man
2006-09-23 02:15:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look around. It has more scum hanging out that the worst back ally. Read some of the moronic things said here. There are at least 20 "do you think I can make money off www.conartist.com?" questions every day.
Not to say there isn't a good side but really......Do you really think that collectively it would come out to be rational?
2006-09-23 01:11:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've got regarded at dissimilar Q's in this internet site and that i dont think of the greater the smarter!! in case you throw 10 ppl in a room and a pair of are smart you get 20% mind, on the information superhighway you have have been given one thousand smarties and 1miliion dumbasses...= below a million% mind!!! no longer a reliable determine for the human race!!
2016-12-12 13:29:56 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People connected through the Internet can use there computers to tackle large complex problems by each computer just computing a small portion of the problem.
I don't think I would want my mind connected to anyone else's though
2006-09-23 01:14:24 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The internet is the embryo of the future hive mind you postulate.
The ultimate stage of human evolution will involve uploading consciousness and shrugging off physical existence.
We only exist in our minds anyway.
2006-09-23 01:09:07 · answer #8 · answered by ratboy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's any thing it's a moron. Concider 1/2 the questions just on Q&A. If the net were inteligent it would have cut this off long ago.
2006-09-23 01:03:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah , but the ants operate by there own will in this manner, they love thier Queen, computers have no choice.
2006-09-23 01:24:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋