I realized some months ago that by allowing some people online (or many, trusted as one source) to accrue more and more influence over the thoughts and activity of the other nodes of the network, the Internet is transgressing more and more into an emergent organization consistent with Dan Dennett’s model of how the functions of human consciousness comes about.

Homo Sapiens is getting to know itself a whole lot better lately, and the accumulation of cultural knowhow is growing into a more powerful phenomenon than this planet has ever known before. That much is obvious if you look at the world today. We would have big trouble surviving without technology. This change will shift to a higher gear once we start making real headway in reverse-engineering the brain — the hub of our interconnectedness.