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I'm in agreement. Think of large social sites like reddit or 4chan. I think it would be fair to consider them as conscious entities for the same reason. They ca
by klank 12y ago
I'm in agreement. Think of large social sites like reddit or 4chan. I think it would be fair to consider them as conscious entities for the same reason. They can have conversations with themselves about themselves and can even have conversations/interactions with outside entities all driven "by their own volition".
- anigbrowl 12y agoAh, so I'm not hte only person that thinks that way. I've found it helpful to imagine the same mechanism at work in any large system like market, a nation and so on. Even things like ant colonies have a sort of slow primitive consciousness. It's particularly interesting that you mention 4chan, since the the fact that it is anonymous by default actually fosters this behavior.