From: info@i2.to
Date: Wed Jun 02 1999 - 16:01:14 MDT
On Wed, 02 June 1999, Damien Broderick wrote:
>>At 09:43 PM 1/06/99 -0700, spike speculated:
>>
>>(perhaps via Jeff's buckytube notion) they could perhaps form a sort
>>of meta-brain, within a living organism, without otherwise
>>disturbing the host organism. One could imagine a whale might
>>be an ideal host, or perhaps a giant redwood.
>
>In THE WHITE ABACUS, the global AI Gestell - the Big Giant Brain
>thing - is embedded in the xylem and phloem of a tropical forest.
>
> Damien Broderick
Since we're out on a speculative limb, I once heard the astounding idea that vast mycelia networks under the Amazon rain forest, which seem to extend for 1000's of meters, might match or exceed the complexity of a human brain.
Paul Hughes
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