http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3734 examining transformative technology Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3734#comment-866505 Tim Tyler Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:56:34 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3734#comment-866505 The internet generally works along SoM principles. Copyright, patent, privacy concerns and spatial separation prevent the components from meshing together as well as they could - but the resulting group mind still works - after a fashion. The internet generally works along SoM principles. Copyright, patent, privacy concerns and spatial separation prevent the components from meshing together as well as they could – but the resulting group mind still works – after a fashion.

]]> http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3734#comment-866484 fughquwads Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:53:26 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3734#comment-866484 I think for me, at least, the reason no one has done SoM is that there's no reason for me to really think that it is true at all. It sounds like a philosophy of how the mind should work. If it really is a valid way of doing a mind then it should be backed by experimental results on how cognition in biological life forms work. Or something. I just want a reason to think that SoM will work. I think for me, at least, the reason no one has done SoM is that there’s no reason for me to really think that it is true at all. It sounds like a philosophy of how the mind should work. If it really is a valid way of doing a mind then it should be backed by experimental results on how cognition in biological life forms work. Or something. I just want a reason to think that SoM will work.

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