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It is easy to draw parallels between the human brain and the internet's complex network of nodes, so could conciousness be the next step?
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In engineering terms, it is easy to see qualitative similarities between the human brain and the internet's complex network of nodes, as they both hold, process, recall and transmit information. "The internet behaves a fair bit like a mind," says Ben Goertzel, chair of the Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute, an organisation inevitably based in cyberspace. "It might already have a degree of consciousness".
The internet's network structure is similar to that of the human brain (Image: ImageSource / Getty)
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