Books

Books : reviews

Ben Goertzel.
Chaotic Logic: language, thought, and reality from the perspective of complex systems science.
Plenum Press. 1994

Ben Goertzel.
Creating Internet Intelligence: wild computing, distributed digital consciousness, and the emerging global brain.
Kluwer. 2002

Creating Internet Intelligence presents the most detailed picture yet of the internet of the future, and the steps we can take right now to transform today’s computer networks into their almost-inevitable successor: a worldwide, self-organizing digital mind. Ideas about “global brains” and intelligent networks have been around for decades, yet Creating Internet Intelligence is the first text to flesh them out in a careful and practical manner. It sweeps all the way from the philosophy of mind, society, and culture to the interactions between different cognitive processes in a distributed digital mind and the minutiae of communication protocols between increasingly intelligent Internet agents.