Fireduck

2001.07.26.05.33.35

One thing people like to talk about in guaging the intelegence of a life form is self-awareness and understanding cause effect relationships. What if these concepts were considered on a society level? What if we consider humans on earth, not a billions of instances of individual life forms, but as cells of a larger 50,000 year old life form? Is this creature self aware? Is there a nervios system? Can it understand itself and does it possess time awareness? What would be needed for this creature to reach its potential? Could the internet be the beginings of such a nervous system? I think in order for it be effective, the cell interface needs to be better. What if you could connect to the net and feel the emotions and hear the ideas of a small group of other people? Certainly there would be some network overhead in your own mind, sorting the data, processing it, filtering it, but might that make this group of connected people smarter, more able to deal, with a broader world view? What if instead of a small group, it was a large group? What if it was the entire planet? Then maybe this earth spanning beast might be truely aware...maybe then humans transend into something more....who knows. It would be intersting.

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