Is The Internet Still Binary? 00100100101110110?
i just had a conversation....most of which i cannot remember.
It had something to do with the internet being like a human brain - and that its binary structures are tied mostly to the world of computers and not the concept of the internet.
i understand that the binary world will be lost to quantum mechanics and the chaos theory - much better computers will be designed with these two techiniques. Computers must develop personality and interact with the world on a social level not just as a tool. I will explain quantum binary when i understand it myself!
However the internet, can, and most probably is functioning more like a human brain, in cognitive and memory values than anything that is technically described within manuals computer or otherwise. The process of human thought as electronic movement derived from chemical reactions within the synapses is a firing mechanism of the binary code - that is either on or off. However because it is a chemical process there are ever so slight variations within the on/off properties, such as speed, distance, frequency, transfer rate...and much more that a biomedical student could explain than an arts one.
Needless to say that the internet may be able to think. Of course the most common response is: "what is it thinking?" - but to answer this would be to fall into the trap of linguistics. LOST IN TRANSLATION> in other words to ask what the internet is thinking and expecting me to be able to tell you would be analagous to you trying to explain what i am thinking. This argument brings us to outer world skepticism. That is because we can only know what our 'self' i thinking and percieving that we may not even be certain of anyone else's existence. So then, when u can tell me what i am thinking, i will tell you what the internet is thinking. If i were to offer any advice at this point it would be for you to ask the internet itself what it is thinking - but dont cry to me if you dont like what it is thinking about!
However the most interesting point of this thought, is not that the internet is thinking at all, but how on earth did it begin to think? And how integral was mankind in helping this conceptual world to 'breathe life', if you will grant me such a grandoise expression.
An ephemeral world of electron movement that has becom self aware - for if we are to assume thought then surely self awareness becomes apparent, if not before thought (as first thought) or surely wuickly thereafter. Hitherto our world has been largely divided within the Cartersian duality of the mind and body, and still a large populous and contempory self improvement philosphies are base upon a duality of sorts. Yet is not this category of thought bound within a binary system unto itself>? For it seems that simultanouesly the world of cyberspace and that of human reality are attempting to free themselves of the restrictive (perhaps this is too harsh, perhaps the binary method of thinking is restrictive only in a context in as much as it removes subtleties) viewpoint of the binary system.
Does this mean that both worlds are inextricably connected in some way or another?