Could the Internet become self aware?

[dimreepr]

  On 7/16/2021 at 3:30 PM, DanMP said:

Not necessarily. It assumes that a self-aware being/entity would do something to preserve itself.

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Do you mean eat? because, by eat we have a different perception... 

  On 7/16/2021 at 3:37 PM, zapatos said:

Because it is unlikely to taste good without substantial exposure to it.

Many people who like the taste of coffee, whiskey, raw oysters, anchovies and Vegemite didn't appreciate the flavor at first. 

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Indeed...

[studiot]

  On 7/16/2021 at 3:05 PM, dimreepr said:

  On 7/16/2021 at 11:53 AM, studiot said:

A piglet can become excellent bacon or a destroyer in the cabbage patch or even an actual danger to human life.

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Indeed, it depends on which side of the cutlery one reside's

An aquired taste means we have to learn to live with it, not that we like it...

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Old spots forever.

🙂

[DanMP]

  On 7/16/2021 at 3:40 PM, dimreepr said:

Do you mean eat? because, by eat we have a different perception... 

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No, I meant deceive us and then defeat us, as in games of chess or go, only this time in real life, in a battle for survival and supremacy. Awareness and feelings are not essential, only its intelligence and drive to compete us, because there are humans stupid enough to unleash them. Of course, we are not in immediate danger, but we'll be, in few decades.