Ifsr International Systems Science and Systems Engineering

Wild Computing, Distributed Digital Consciousness, and the Emerging Global Brain

By: Ben Goertzel

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Hardcover | 31 December 2001

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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.

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Preface	p. ix
The Coming Evolution	p. 1
Mind as Network
A Practical Definition of Intelligence	p. 21
Elements of a Philosophy of Mind	p. 35
Complexity and Emergence	p. 53
The Psynet Model of Mind	p. 71
Reconceptualizing the Internet
The Network Is the Computer Is the Mind (Is the World)	p. 97
A Fourfold Model of Internet Information Space	p. 115
The Internet Economy as a Complex System	p. 125
The Emerging Global Brain	p. 139
Building Internet Minds and Worlds
Systematizing Internet Agent Interactions	p. 167
Webworld	p. 183
Webmind	p. 195
Webmind on the Commercial Net	p. 241
Toward Superhuman Intelligence	p. 261
An Initial Architecture for Internet Intelligence	p. 273
References	p. 277
Specification of the KNOW Knowledge	p. 281
Goertzel versus Rosen	p. 289
A Formal Vocabulary for Complexity Science	p. 297
Design for an Evolutionary Quantum Compute	p. 303
Universe as Network	p. 313
Index	p. 323
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