Creating Internet Intelligence

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. The Coming Evolution

   1. The Coming Evolution

      • Ben Goertzel, Stephan Vladimir Bugaj

      Pages 1-17

3. Mind as Network

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. A Practical Definition of Intelligence

      • Ben Goertzel

      Pages 21-33

   3. Elements of a Philosophy of Mind

      • Ben Goertzel, Ted Goertzel

      Pages 35-52

   4. Complexity and Emergence

      • Ben Goertzel

      Pages 53-69

   5. The Psynet Model of Mind

      • Ben Goertzel

      Pages 71-94

4. Reconceptualizing the Internet

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. The Network is the Computer is the Mind (is the World)

      • Ben Goertzel

      Pages 97-113

   3. A Fourfold Model of Internet Information Space

      • Ben Goertzel

      Pages 115-123

   4. The Internet Economy as a Complex System

      • Ben Goertzel

      Pages 125-137

   5. The Emerging Global Brain

      • Ben Goertzel

      Pages 139-164

5. Building Internet Minds and Worlds

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. Systematizing Internet Agent Interactions

      • Ben Goertzel

      Pages 167-182

   3. Webworld

      • Ben Goertzel, Stephan Vladimir Bugaj

      Pages 183-193

   4. Webmind

      • Ben Goertzel

      Pages 195-240

   5. Webmind on the Commercial Net

      • Ben Goertzel

      Pages 241-260

   6. Toward Superhuman Intelligence

      • Ben Goertzel

      Pages 261-271

   7. An Initial Architecture for Internet Intelligence

      • Ben Goertzel

      Pages 273-276

6. Back Matter

   Pages 277-330

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Creating Internet Intelligence 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.

• artificial intelligence
• artificial life
• autonom
• cognition
• communication
• complex system
• complexity
• consciousness
• evolution
• intelligence
• intelligent systems
• philosophy
• technology

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