http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/idblog/2008/10/08/can-the-internet-restore-congressional-power/ Thoughts from the Internet and Democracy Project team at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:33:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/idblog/2008/10/08/can-the-internet-restore-congressional-power/comment-page-1/#comment-1517 Tuna Blogger Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:52:25 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/idblog/?p=273#comment-1517 Psychologists posit that consciousness arises when the quantity and frequency synaptic processes between nodes reach a minimum threshold. In the case of the human brain, the nodes are brain neurons and the synapses are facilitated by neuro-transmitting chemicals. That process might be at work in the number of Internet users connected and firing their "synaptic" processes. The entire Internet community may be evolving into an intelligent organism with a unique consciousness of its own. Out of all the synaptic noise of millions of isolated thoughts, emerges a consensual and collaborative position on politics, sociology, religion, economics, etc. At the speed of the electron, this neural network is capable of out-thinking and out-planning even the Executive Branch of the Federal government. Psychologists posit that consciousness arises when the quantity and frequency synaptic processes between nodes reach a minimum threshold. In the case of the human brain, the nodes are brain neurons and the synapses are facilitated by neuro-transmitting chemicals. That process might be at work in the number of Internet users connected and firing their “synaptic” processes. The entire Internet community may be evolving into an intelligent organism with a unique consciousness of its own. Out of all the synaptic noise of millions of isolated thoughts, emerges a consensual and collaborative position on politics, sociology, religion, economics, etc. At the speed of the electron, this neural network is capable of out-thinking and out-planning even the Executive Branch of the Federal government.

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