Check this out, a link to my site from a blog at Wired.com about the possibility of life evolving on the internet, and they link back here to a post I wrote about spam developing as a conscious intelligence information force:
“We can definitely make things in a computer that fulfill the criteria for life that NASA uses, except it’s not chemical,” she added, and cited the AVIDA program at Michigan State.
Indeed, computer viruses and email spam have arguably displayed evolutionary characteristics. But Nowak was more interested in the forms of social life produced by the internet. “It’s already an interesting phenomenon that allows people to function in a different way,” he said. “It leads to very different properties than what were out there before.”
Feel like this is a pretty good and quick response on my recent efforts to “play” my datawake as though the internet were an instrument, bringing useful keywords my way…
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http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/biologists-on-t.html
This might be just the kind of hopeful new symbol we need as a culture: science creating new forms of life, living systems spontaneously evolving into existence, very obvious concrete symbols of emergence to interpenetrate the global brain with.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/07/researchers-syn.html
Researchers trying to apply bio-evolutionary theory to non-living systems, in this case a language
It does seem as though there are a lot of people working on the idea of getting something to emerge from previously inert systems.
My favorite part:
“Man is the one who’s undergoing this incredible evolution now”
Its the externalization and physicalization of the thoughts/data.
We receive messages from the “conscious internet” like we receive emotions from our bodies.
But neither the body nor the net are anything without the self awareness that organizes them to form and extract meaning.