Is the Internet Conscious? If It Were, How Would We Know?

When asked how we will know when the internet is becoming conscious, Koch replied that the surest sign will be when “it displays independent behavior.” It’s hard to imagine what exactly this ... Read More

A Neuroscientist's Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious - WIRED

It's a question that's perplexed philosophers for centuries and scientists for decades: Where does consciousness come from? Neuroscientist Christof Koch, chief scientific officer at the Allen ... Read More

New data: Americans are abandoning wired home Internet

In fact, Americans as a whole are becoming less likely to have residential broadband, the figures show: They're abandoning their wired Internet for a mobile-data-only diet — and if the trend ... Read More

Christof Koch, Robert Sawyer: Could the Internet ever become conscious? - Slate Magazine

If the Internet doesn’t have what it takes to become conscious, it would be useful to understand why it fails. Perhaps we can even come a little closer to learning how our three-and-a-half-pound ... Read More