Creating Internet Intelligence

Wild Computing, Distributed Digital Consciousness, and the Emerging Global Brain
2002
ISBN: 978-0-306-46735-6
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1530 g

Reihe: IFSR International Series in Systems Science and Systems Engineering

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goertzel, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Robotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wissenschaftsethik, Technikethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Wissensbasierte Systeme, Expertensysteme
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Coming Evolution.- 1 MIND AS NETWORK.- 2. A Practical Definition of Intelligence.- 3. Elements of a Philosophy of Mind.- 4. Complexity and Emergence.- 5. The Psynet Model of Mind.- 2 RECONCEPTUALIZING THE INTERNET.- 6. The Network Is the Computer Is the Mind (Is the World).- 7. A Fourfold Model of Internet Information Space.- 8. The Internet Economy as a Complex System.- 9. The Emerging Global Brain.- 3 BUILDING INTERNET MINDS AND WORLDS.- 10. Systematizing Internet Agent Interactions.- 11. Webworld.- 12. Webmind.- 13. Webmind on the Commercial Net.- 14. Toward Superhuman Intelligence.- 15. An Initial Architecture for Internet Intelligence.- References.- Appendix 1. Specification of the KNOW Knowledge.- Appendix 2. Goertzel versus Rosen.- Appendix 3. A Formal Vocabulary for Complexity Science.- Appendix 4. Design for an Evolutionary Quantum Compute.- Appendix 5. Universe as Network.