From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Sun Dec 29 2002 - 16:05:27 MST
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> the early network engineers on the Arpanet. I can assure you that
> evolution and consciousness were not part of the design. The RFCs and
> Internet Protocols still don't support or specify evolution or
> consciousness today.
A network, whether a WAN or LAN involves information transmission. Since
the nodes are all-purpose machines, and are subject to remote exploits the
architecture can be used for a bootstrap of a global mind.
But of course that's operating the system out of specs.
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