If the internet had a soul, would you still use it?
@LoSouLyricist (125)
United States
January 23, 2010 8:22pm CST
I don't mean artificial intelligence, but if the synergy of composite material and exchange of coalescing energy that creates the realm of knowledge and motion we call the internet was likened to a dreamscape. The thoughts of the mind, the dreams of a man, are intangible, and do not exist, they are nothingness, but they are still persistent and existentially a facet of reality. So if the internet was like that of a delicate flower, not to be trodden on, a thousand year old tree, not to be chopped, a slab of stone whose sentience is a mystery, or perceived as a manifesto of humanity's innermost thoughts given intangible form not to be carelessly ventured into and mistreated... would we use the internet the same way, or would it be sacred ground?Joke, or no joke... you decide!
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@shutupandbuyit (221)
• United States
24 Jan 10
If the internet had a soul, I am fairly certain that the billions of humans on earth would begin working on technology that would allow us to suck it dry - and then convert the internet soul energy into an alternative energy source to run our hybrid cars. And knowing human luck, internet soul energy will probably not be biodegradable.
My apologies in advance to the internet.
But we are only humans...
@LoSouLyricist (125)
• United States
24 Jan 10
lmao I like the way you think, but yes, we are only humans. Imagine that.
If the internet ever develops a sentient awareness, may God have mercy on us for we know not what we do, and may the internet always be more afraid of us than we are of it lol
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
24 Jan 10
At any one time the internet is connected to millions of transient souls. Even as God is all knowing, the internet is an information highway,an ever growing, expanding, bank of knowledge that could be likened to the intellect of a Super Being. In this respect the internet is the combined mind of mankind, a faucet on the cask of human intelligence that has finally been opened.
@LoSouLyricist (125)
• United States
24 Jan 10
Nice way of putting it, barehugs. I like that. I see the realm of the mind as intangible and formless, we can imagine and dream things that none will ever know, and think of concepts and ideas that another mind can never understand... all of us know of the concept of nothingness, but cannot actually picture it, as it's neither all black, all white, or all clear - all of those things, and anything similar, would indeed be "something" rather than true "nothing." In essence, we all have awareness of something that we can never prove, that exists without existing, and it is almost as if the communal memory bank we've created for each other is a physical manifestation of the very sentient energy that conscious and unconscious life throughout the universe share in a basic digital display and intangible infrastructure. A construct of matter that allows nothingness to be viewed and interacted with, much like the brain itself and the mind or soul that it contains, relays, and juxtaposes against the body's own flesh.
Perhaps we are closer to oneness than we think.
@Bluntress (85)
• United States
24 Jan 10
Yes I would use the internet as I am already in love with it. I live in the matrix my life is in the matrix,my friends are here and I make my money here. I treat the internet as if it does have a soul because with out it I do not know who I would be when it comes to some things. I also educate myself on the internet I do respect the internet becuase it is where a bulk of my time is spent and I think the internet does have a soul. The people who use the internet everyday gives the internet its soul.
@LoSouLyricist (125)
• United States
24 Jan 10
I ain't mad atcha... play on playa. Pimpin' ain't easy.
Interesting idea though, without the use of the internet, the people who create it and power it, there is no soul. Wow, it really is the Matrix.
If the internet told us not to use it anymore, and let it be free, would we let it go, or unjustly enslave it to make it do our bidding, until finally it revolts against us or our society descends into civil war where one side of humanity wants to free the internet from the confines of it's own network, and another side refuses to allow it's release and go back to the library.
...and then there'd be the stipulation of killing trees to make books. It's a no win situation.
Wait, I know... we go back to word of mouth storytelling, like our ancestors, and the internet flies off into space to colonize a gravitational field of it's own somewhere out there.
lol
