From: Anand (trans_humanism@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Feb 09 2002 - 03:32:45 MST
Congrats on the publication, Ben. Looking forward to reading it. (Currently
can't afford it, but will request a local university to order it.)
Best
Anand
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Creative Internet Intelligence: Wild Computing, Distributed Digital
Consciousness, and the Emerging Global Brain
by Ben Goertzel
Format: Hardcover, 342pp.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Pub. Date: January 2002
Preface
1 The Coming Evolution 1
Pt. 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
Pt. 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
Pt. 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
References 277
App. 1 Specification of the KNOW Knowledge 281
App. 2 Goertzel versus Rosen 289
App. 3 A Formal Vocabulary for Complexity Science 297
App. 4 Design for an Evolutionary Quantum Compute 303
App. 5 Universe as Network 313
Index 323
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