06-14-2013, 12:36 PM
From various things I've read here and there, I don't think the Internet has either the processing power to form a find, nor the structure even if it had the power. The odds of a mind arising from sheer random chance in the mere decades the Net has been around seem rather long. Even if it ever did, how would we tell?
OA being host to massively more powerful computers and vastly denser and more 'brainlike' networks, this sort of thing might arise from time to time. Perhaps in cases where a local civ purposely designs its local networks to have a strongly brainlike structure and operations, presumably because such offers advantages of various kinds. Of course, AI is common in Terragen civ so presumably they have a good idea of what structures make a mind and so might be able to get very close without actually generating it. But occasionally mistakes may happen...
Todd
OA being host to massively more powerful computers and vastly denser and more 'brainlike' networks, this sort of thing might arise from time to time. Perhaps in cases where a local civ purposely designs its local networks to have a strongly brainlike structure and operations, presumably because such offers advantages of various kinds. Of course, AI is common in Terragen civ so presumably they have a good idea of what structures make a mind and so might be able to get very close without actually generating it. But occasionally mistakes may happen...
Todd