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>The entire human brain occupies around 1ZB of space
>The entire internet occupies around 100ZB of space
Why hasn't the internet become conscious yet? It has enough computational power to outperform a brain, so shouldn't it have already surpassed humans by now? How can a computer system with more capacity be dumber? It makes no sense
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>>16788374
>generate infinite noise
>it occupies infinite space
OP figured out the way to reach the Singularity.
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>>16788381
It's not about the information. It's about the system that is capable of storing it. Just because my phone's memory is wiped it doesn't mean it can't run a lot of heavy programs
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>>16788374
>Why hasn't the internet become conscious yet?
How do you know it hasn't?
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>>16788388
What would prove that is has? Wouldn't it be capable of hijaking emails and comunicate with everyone by sending messages?
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>>16788374
You have to actually refute each hypothesis in Serial Experiments Lain.

Literally if you want a real, honest, meaningful, science-centered, stateless, robust answer... We saw the anime for your question already and there have been numerous claims it was predictive of events occurring today especially for the time it came out. You need to address any paranormal concept endemic to your question without dismissal.
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>>16788386
>It's not about the information. It's about the system that is capable of storing it.
The universe is capable of storing a seemingly endless stream of retarded posts like yous. Two More Weeks and it will gain sentience and become a massive retard. Like (You). Retard Panpsychism will be proven true once and for all.
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>>16788394
The universe is conscious. And that consciousness is called God
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>>16788396
If you define it to be so, it must be true. By the same token, the internet is already conscious. You just need to give that consciousness a fancy name, to give it some intellectual weight and philosophical weight. :^)
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>>16788374
>Why hasn't the internet become conscious yet?
It is. But he'd rather goon to cartoon porn than do anything productive.
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>>16788374
consciousness requires a coordinated integration of information into a cohesive perception... we dont know how that works yet. so maybe the internet is in theory conscious, but we wouldnt be able to tell because we simply dont know how to detect it yet.
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>>16788374
because consciousness is a series of microtubules, and until we sort that out we're just going to have to wallow in our own slop.
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>>16788409
>consciousness is a series of microtubules
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>>16788389
It already communicates with everyone except (You)
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>>16788389
Every bot hat reads information from anywhere on the internet and in reaponse posts something anywhere else on the internet is a neuron of the greater internet consciousness
Think about it
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>>16788374
What's your argument?
>X occupies Y memory
>Z occupies W memory
>which isn't Z conscious yet?
There's no logic here at all. Stop being so fucking retarded
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>>16789014
>X occupies Y memory
>Z occupies W memory
>which isn't Z conscious yet?
sounds like a granger problem
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>>16789014
>X occupies Y memory
>Z occupies W memory
>Y=W
>therefore X=Z
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>>16788386
You are fucking retarded.
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>>16789122
ad hominem
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>>16789207
Yes.
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>>16788374
>Why hasn't the internet become conscious yet?

You should really consider that your mind isn't cut out for abstract thought. If this sort of thing is liable to come out of your mouth, there is no destination that this kind of thinking is going to bring you to. Movement for movement sake, sure, but if you're expecting to get somewhere you should give up.
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>>16788390
>tranime
bruh



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