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The Internet as “Magic Mirror”by@USDACpoet
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The Internet as “Magic Mirror”

by Josh Adler4mSeptember 21st, 2016
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The <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/internet" target="_blank">Internet</a>, might be considered <em>a magic mirror</em> that can virtually aggregate quantified information systems of data non-locally. While able to mirror awareness to generate local access for conscious re-integration of information, it’s important to note that the Internet, as a system, lacks the magnitudes of synthesis, as well as the multidimensional openness of <em>conscious </em>systems, which can process qualia-rich aesthetic information into emotional imprints, acts of will, creativity, or self-awareness. Google’s latest AGI may dream in electric sheep, but for it to harness the force of consciousness enough to motivate standing in an uncomfortable line over-night for opening day tickets to the latest “Star Wars” film, or give its friend an intimate gift, would require transcendent interpretive functionality, mechanically operating in the quantum realms of resonant transactions of sensation, that conscious systems successfully absorb and preserve during “closed” or “semi-closed” states like sleep or death.

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