Re: The Semantic Web could help the Internet become sentient

Jeff,
Don't be silly.
We are sentient.
In terms of the internet we are the sentient end points.
As sentient beings we are capable of being dehumanised, deprived of or made
to relinquish our feelings, the sine qua non of sentience.

Of course, I suspect that talk of a sentient internet, an internet that you
might imagine is sentient by projecting what ever that might mean to you
onto it, leads in the direction of relinquishing feelings that are our own.

Adam

On 3 August 2011 16:22, jeff putnam <jayfoo@gmail.com> wrote:

> Isn't it possible that the internet is already sentient (it certainly
> has lots of power, interconnections and the like).
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> The interesting question is more likely to be "How would we know?"
> It is not likely to exhibit human style intelligence.    Do we have
> any way to measure sentience (or intelligence) in things that are
> wildly non-human?
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> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Melvin Carvalho
> <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
> > According to this TED Talk
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> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGF9NbPFfRo&t=10m34s
> >
> > Enjoy! :)
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