Re: [-empyre-] An indecipherable communication?: Gaia and sonic topologies

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

absolutely and I think spiders or spyders are already art works, but the
crawling rarely leaves traces - still, one might imagine a site that
devours spyders, places them into correspondences...

Alan

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Barrie wrote:

> Interesting conjecture just occurred to me re networks, net etc.
>
> So what the hell, here goes, you may recall seeing those insect like mini
> robots that various people have cobbled together from bits and pieces, they
> are mostly six legged and crawl about the place learning how to navigate
> obstacles etc. Learning, at a low level, AI at a low level, not even as
> sophisticated as real insects but learning all the same.
>
> So if you have software that uses the net as a crawl space, so to speak,
> wouldn't it be possible for that software to learn, accumulate knowledge,
> about its _environment_? What it would do with this data/knowledge I have no
> idea but I'm sure that artists and others would think of something. Would it
> develop high level functions, no, but it could be fun, after all, with all
> those web cams out there ... the night has a thousand eyes.
>
> Cheers, Barrie
>
> on 30.11.03 07:04 AM, Alan Sondheim at sondheim@panix.com wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > If you look deeply into tcp/ip, domain addressing, etc. - I think you'd
> > find very little parallel with mind or neural processing. The idea that
> > the Net will 'evolve' re: consciousness or intelligence has been around
> > for a long time, but looking at routers, routing, protocols, etc., I'd say
> > it's impossible - any more than the telephone network ever exhibited
> > anything more than broken 911 calls - Alan
> >
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