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Will the internet become conscious?

Check out my latest interview with the BBC about the internet and the brain:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121...

The internet is a new life form that shows the first signs of intelligence. So says brain scientist and serial entrepreneur Jeff Stibel.

He argues that the physical wiring of the internet is much like a rudimentary brain and some of the actions and interactions that take place on it are similar to the processes that we see in the brain.

At the same time, he says, it is forcing us as humans to interact and think in new and different ways.

But, he tells BBC Future, this is just the beginning. The internet is only going to become more and more intelligent, changing humans and society in ways which we are not yet able to understand.
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Published on June 13, 2013 10:41 Tags: brain, consciousness, intelligence, internet, psychology