I was thinking about posting a thread about my %super-original idea% that the internet represents a brain. In this brain, the majority of it, is controlled by the major aspects of what I perceive to be the human brain. Those being namely; instinct, impulse, (repressed) emotion basic dreams, materialistic perception. As higher functions of this collective cyber-culture brain that we are building, expanding and evolving, I would put cognitive function, reason, empathy, evolved dreams, telepathy, etc.
I would then ask people if there was a possibility of using a metaphor like the brain on a massively technological cross-cultural level. And if so, what ideas they had on the metaphor as far as being usefull, and what ideas of their own they had concerning this strange entity that seems somehow designed for a cross-cultural evolution towards global understanding.
I never posted it because I figured there had to be another thread here on the barb discussing this that I couldn't find, and my ideas became too muddled in my own private mini-brain to actually form a coherent thread-starting post, as is clearly visible in this post. |
