Ebook: Creating Internet Intelligence: Wild Computing, Distributed Digital Consciousness, and the Emerging Global Brain
Author: Ben Goertzel (auth.)
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Technology
- Series: International Federation for Systems Research International Series on Systems Science and Engineering 18
- Year: 2002
- Publisher: Springer US
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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 shape this evolution. A general theory of intelligent systems is described, based on the author's previous work; and in this context, the specific notion of Internet intelligence is fleshed out, in its commercial, social, psychological, computer-science, philosophical, and theological aspects. Software engineering work carried out by the author and his team over the last few years, aimed at seeding the emergence of Internet intelligence, is reviewed in some detail, including the Webmind AI Engine, a uniquely powerful Internet-based digital intelligence, and the Webworld platform for peer-to-peer distributed cognition and artificial life. The book should be of interest to computer scientists, philosophers, and social scientists, and more generally to anyone concerned about the nature of the mind, or the evolution of computer and Internet technology and its effect on human life.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
The Coming Evolution....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
A Practical Definition of Intelligence....Pages 21-33
Elements of a Philosophy of Mind....Pages 35-52
Complexity and Emergence....Pages 53-69
The Psynet Model of Mind....Pages 71-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
The Network is the Computer is the Mind (is the World)....Pages 97-113
A Fourfold Model of Internet Information Space....Pages 115-123
The Internet Economy as a Complex System....Pages 125-137
The Emerging Global Brain....Pages 139-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Systematizing Internet Agent Interactions....Pages 167-182
Webworld....Pages 183-193
Webmind....Pages 195-240
Webmind on the Commercial Net....Pages 241-260
Toward Superhuman Intelligence....Pages 261-271
An Initial Architecture for Internet Intelligence....Pages 273-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-330
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
The Coming Evolution....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
A Practical Definition of Intelligence....Pages 21-33
Elements of a Philosophy of Mind....Pages 35-52
Complexity and Emergence....Pages 53-69
The Psynet Model of Mind....Pages 71-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
The Network is the Computer is the Mind (is the World)....Pages 97-113
A Fourfold Model of Internet Information Space....Pages 115-123
The Internet Economy as a Complex System....Pages 125-137
The Emerging Global Brain....Pages 139-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Systematizing Internet Agent Interactions....Pages 167-182
Webworld....Pages 183-193
Webmind....Pages 195-240
Webmind on the Commercial Net....Pages 241-260
Toward Superhuman Intelligence....Pages 261-271
An Initial Architecture for Internet Intelligence....Pages 273-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-330
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