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To: Slagle who wrote (68291)	8/31/2005 2:06:18 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Please don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying Google itself is going to be the zygote leading to It and it might sink from view like Netscape did. I'm just describing the principle of what's coming. The details of who does it and in what proportion are yet to be determined. There will be many contributors to the overall situation, just as our brains have many components. Plenty of attempted designs have gone by the evolutionary wayside, eliminate from the gene pool as being not up to the task. At what stage on the development of brains would you say "will to life" occurs? Trees? Probably not, though some people talk to trees to encourage them. Ants? I doubt it as they are too mechanistic. Parrots? They can develop a fair vocabulary and definitely are entering the emotional side of life, getting quite irate at various times. Mice? They can do quite a few human-like tricks. Dogs? Man's best friend and pretty smart in a limited kind of way [they don't do much calculus or even use verbs correctly]. Chimps can figure out a few things, do planning, form social compacts and so on. There seems to be a continuum and "life" doesn't depend on "will to life". Algae don't have will to life. But they are seriously alive. Meanwhile, while the process is sorted out, there are going to be multi $trillion megabucks made in the development of cyberspace brainpower, just as was made during the development of the industrial revolution through the 19th and 20th centuries, but the amounts will be much larger because brainpower is much more valuable than muscle power and there are 6 billion of us to pay money to those who produce the goods and services we want. In the industrial revolution there were only a few hundred million in the economic systems involved. China and India were largely out of the picture for the 20th century. Now they are on stream for the cyberspace era. That's 2.5 billion people right there. Then there were more billions who were largely either not born or excluded from the industrial revolution. If everyone has lots of grandchildren, that will turbocharge the process. The more the merrier say I. Not that I'm Catholic. Mqurice