Creating internet intelligence : wild computing, distributed digital consciousness, and the emerging global brain / Ben Goertzel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goertzel, Ben.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

IFSR international series on systems science and engineering ; v. 18.

IFSR international series on systems science and engineering ; v. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet.

Artificial intelligence.

Cyberspace.

Physical Description:

xvi, 330 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, [2002]

Contents:

1. The Coming Evolution 1

Part 1 Mind as Network

2. A Practical Definition of Intelligence 21

3. Elements of a Philosophy of Mind 35

4. Complexity and Emergence 53

5. The Psynet Model of Mind 71

Part 2 Reconceptualizing the Internet

6. The Network Is the Computer Is the Mind (Is the World) 97

7. A Fourfold Model of Internet Information Space 115

8. The Internet Economy as a Complex System 125

9. The Emerging Global Brain 139

Part 3 Building Internet Minds and Worlds

10. Systematizing Internet Agent Interactions 167

11. Webworld 183

12. Webmind 195

13. Webmind on the Commercial Net 241

14. Toward Superhuman Intelligence 261

15. An Initial Architecture for Internet Intelligence 273

Appendix 1. Specification of the KNOW Knowledge 281

Appendix 2. Goertzel versus Rosen 289

Appendix 3. A Formal Vocabulary for Complexity Science 297

Appendix 4. Design for an Evolutionary Quantum Compute 303

Appendix 5. Universe as Network 313.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-280) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0306467356

OCLC:

48397736