The net comes alive

An article in the New Scientist suggests that th einternet could become self aware i a decade.(Ht-Tim Difford)

According to o Francis Heylighen, who studies consciousness and artificial intelligence at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) in Belgium,

consciousness is merely a system of mechanisms for making information processing more efficient by adding a level of control over which of the brain's processes get the most resources. "Adding consciousness is more a matter of fine-tuning and increasing control... than a jump to a wholly different level,"

therefore it is quite feasible that

this turn the internet into a self-aware network that constantly strives to become better at what it does, reorganising itself and filling gaps in its own knowledge and abilities.