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西方科学家依然对互联网的进化表示质疑
(2011-12-06 14:25:30)
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互联网神经学人类的进化科学界进化论it |
分类： 互联网进化论研究 |
（评语英文原文：”This study proposes to apply Darwin's theory of evolution to the future of the Internet as the extension of the human species. While the idea is both fresh and amazing, there is no real research component in the paper, and its fundamental logic of proposition is flawed. Specifically, there is a mysterious jump from Sequence 8 to 9, when the digital Internet all of a sudden takes over the biological evolution of the human race. This gap is too big to be simply explained by showing the "structural" resemblance of the Internet and the human brain.
1.因为篇幅的问题，我们关于互联网与神经学的交叉对比研究无法详细写到本篇论文中。譬如2011年3月，我们在科学院研究生院做的“人脑中的类搜索引擎实验”，我们即将开展的“互联网中的类神经反射弧实验”等。因此结论会显得单薄，
2.从生命起源到智慧宇宙的19张图中，事实上最关键的第9张到第14张图并不是我们的猜想，而是对过去40年互联网进化的客观描述。第15张到19张才是根据现实对未来的推测。可能这位评审专家并没有注意到这一点。
3.互联网进化的核心观点还需要等待更多实验的验证，还需要时间被主流科学界接纳，只有那时，这篇文章的逻辑问题才会更加完整和可信。
论文简版全文：
Feng Liu,ResearchCenterfor Virtual Economy and Digital Sciences,ChinaAcademyofSciences,Beijing100190,China
Abstract
The Theory of Evolution by Darwin revealed the law of evolution of lives, from primitive to advanced, from simple to complex. Similar evolution can also be seen on the Internet: the four decades of the Internet show that the Internet’s development is not orderless. Instead, through the analogy and contrast between the Internet and human brain structure, evidences show that the evolution of the Internet is highly resembling that of human brains. Enlightened by neurology, we plotted the “virtual brain structure” for the Internet. We found that the Internet has the tendency of infinite expansion and growth, and have come to the conclusion that the Internet will eventually extend to the whole universe. According to the research, we have formed a roadmap of evolution from the origin of life to the Intelligent Universe
Introduction
From the review and examination of the history of the Internet, we have found that the structure of the Internet has strong resemblance to that of human brain. We proposed a structure of the Internet Virtual Brain, and plotted six illustrations of evolution of the Internet, from a primitive one evolved to a mature one.
On the special dimension, on the other hand, we noted
that the Internet has the tendency of infinite expansion and
growth, from the laboratory prototype to national internetwork,
intercontinental network, and, through moon explorer and Mars
explorer, expanding to outer space. We thus speculate that as time
passes, the Internet will expand from the Earth to the whole Solar
System, further to the Milky Way galaxy, eventually to the whole
universe. This universe that is connected and covered by the
Internet is what we call the “intelligent universe” or “the
universe as a brain.” We
created
The Darwinian has proved the process of evolution from the single-cell microbody to human. However, the evolution after human life is still unknown. We attempted to combine the evolution of lives and the evolution of the Internet, to form a roadmap of evolution from the origin of life to the Intelligent Universe. This roadmap will be illustrated in Section 4.
1. The Origin of Life, and the Theory of Evolution
In 1859, C.R. Darwin published his revolutionary
book
The commonly held scientific belief is that the lives
on the Earth evolved following such roadmap: from the most
primitive non-cell organism, evolved
to
We will borrow the scientific illustration of the evolution from the primitive non-cell structure to human, to be the first part of our evolution roadmap from the origin of life to the intelligent universe
2.The Birth of the Internet, to the Formation of the Internet Brain
The Internet was born in 1969 as APARNET, a computer
internetwork by the Advanced Research Project Agency (APAR) of the
of the U.S. Department of Defense. The applications on the Internet
developed from simple forms in the early days such as ftp,
electronic mail, electronic BBS, developed to the rich forms of
today, such as
Looking back to the evolution history of human, it is
a history of the extension of human sensing and motion organs.
Stick extended arms, stone extended fist, car and train extended
legs, telescope and microscope extended eyes, drums, trumpets, and
telephone lines extendedear
and
At the same time, the extension of human brain never
stood still either. Knot-tying, counting rod, abacus are all
examples of early day computing tools that extend the human brain.
In1753, almost at the beginning of the industrial revolution, an
author known as “C.M” described on
It took the mankind two hundred years to make preparations for internetworking. In 1969, ARPANET connected four computers for the first time, and then the Internet took off from the original military-oriented ARPANET to today’s Internet with millions of servers and countless applications and services. The forty years since the ARPANET, there emerged desktop computers, laptop computers, and smart phones, everyone of which increased the time human brain connected to the Internet. The information and knowledge inside human brain constantly interacts with those on the Internet. The history of the Internet indicates that the Internet is not only the internetworking of computers, but rather for the connection of human brains through internetworking of computers .
If the fundamental function of the Internet is to connect human brains rather than only computers, the this connection itself should have a structure relevant and similar to that of what it connects – the human brain. Observing the Internet’s development since 1969, we noticed this similarity with more and more evidence[4].
From the 1990s, video cameras connected with the Internet had started to be used in homes, factories, and public places such as intersections and squares. In 2007, Google launched the street view service, through which Internet users in Asia or Europe can view city views of Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, or New York. This new system is to the Internet as vision and hearing systems are to the human nerve system[5]
Also in the 1990s, sensors placed in soil, air,
bridges, building began to be connected to the Internet, sending
data to monitors through the Internet. In 2006, the water resources
management of China began to place sensors in soil, rivers, and
air, transmitted data of temperature, humidity, wind speed to data
processing center through the Internet, for analysis to support
decisions regarding flood/drought prevention and response. Since
2009, the Internet of Things featuring networks of sensors began to
take off world wide. These networks are similar to
the
Since 1980s, the control of a remote printer or copier through LAN or MAN (metropolitan area network) emerged. In the first ten years of the 21st century, it is not uncommon to see cases in which doctors perform surgery through networks from distance. These applications of controlling machines or equipments from a distance are similar to the motion nerve system in human brain [7].
In October 2007, Google and IBM began to extend their cloud
computing programs in university campuses, including Carnegie
Mellon, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and University of Maryland. In
cloud computing, the software traditionally installed on PCs
– such as office, gaming, security, and financial
software – are residing in and running from giant
servers on the Internet. Numerous users obtain the services
provided by these gigantic servers through simpler clients (as
compared to full-fledged stations). At the same time the data
captured by the “vision,” “hearing,” “body sensing,” and
“motion”“nerve systems” are all transmitted
It is enlightened by these evidences, we developed the following illustration for the “virtual brain of the Internet”[9](Figure 1):
The above figure was later further developed into a new one that emphasized the triple-layer structure of the central nerve system of the Internet ”[10](Figure 2):
The evolution of the Internet from the original four connected computers to the eventually complete “virtual brain of the Internet” is not achieved in one strike. Instead it is a gradual and evolutional process. Based on the development of the Internet, we plotted six figures as the second part of the evolution roadmap from the origin of life to the intelligent universe.
3.The Internet’s Spatial Growth from Laboratory to Intelligent Universe
October 29, 1969, the computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time, which was the prototype of the Internet. Since that point, in 42 years, the Internet expanded from theU.S.to covering theAmericas, Europe, andAsia. All continents are now completely covered by the Internet.
The Internet’s expansion is not limited to the Earth:
every step of mankind’s exploration into the outer space marks the
expansion of the boundary of the Internet: the moon explorer, the
Mars explorer, or the deep space explorers Voyager I and II, all
pushed forward the boundary of the Internet to the “Interplanet.”
We will
use
4 The roadmap from the origin of life to the intelligent universe
|
Sequence number |
Figure |
Remarks |
|
1 |
|
The origin of life (figure fromthe Internet) |
|
2 |
|
The age of bacteria and blue algae(figure from the Internet) |
|
3 |
|
The age of trilobite; explosion of lives (figure from the Internet) |
|
4 |
|
The age of fishes(figure from the Internet) |
|
5 |
|
The age of amphibians (figure from the Internet) |
|
6 |
|
The age of dinosaurs and reptiles (figure from the Internet) |
|
7 |
|
The age of mammals (figure from the Internet) |
|
8 |
|
The age of evolution of man (figure from the Internet) |
|
9 |
|
1969, Internet was born; mankind entered the Internet Age |
|
10 |
|
1969-1983: The Internet had only a few functions |
|
11 |
|
Since BBS’birth in 1978,its functions span off and there emerged many new services such as news, e-commerce, blogs, wikis. |
|
12 |
|
The spin-offs of BBS combined with other early applications of the Internet |
|
13 |
|
Internet applications further merged and synthesized, forming the “quasi-neuron” structure based on personal (Internet) space |
|
14 |
|
As the emerge of the Internet of Things and with cloud computing, the virtual brain structure of the Internet is taking form |
|
15 |
|
The virtual brain of the Internet that covers all continents (figure from the Internet) |
|
16 |
|
The virtual brain of the Internet that covers the whole Earth (figure from the Internet) |
|
17 |
|
The virtual brain of the Internet that covers the whole Solar system; it can be referred to as “intelligent Solar System” or the “Solar System Brain” (figure from the Internet) |
|
18 |
|
The virtual brain of the Internet that covers the whole Milky Way galaxy; it can be referred to as “intelligent Milky Way” or the “Milky Way Brain” (figure from the Internet) |
|
19 |
|
The virtual brain of the Internet that covers the whole Universe; it can be referred to as “intelligent Universe” or the “Universe Brain” (figure from the Internet) |
5.Conclusion
Through the examination and organization of the development history of the Internet, this study developed and described the roadmap of evolution from the origin of life to the Intelligent Universe. It has the following significance:
1. Filled in the blank of the Darwinian after the evolution reached the human.
3. Through the proposed model of the Intelligent Universe, pointed out the direction of the evolution of lives.
Although this study pointed out the ultimate result of the evolution of the Internet is the Intelligent Universe, or the Universe Brain, there are still three issues that need to be explored and addressed:
1. How will the Intelligent Universe overcome the constraints of time and space in its operation?
2. What would be the direction of the next stage of evolution for the Intelligent Universe?
3. What could be the factors pushing forward the lived
toward the direction of the Intelligent Universe?
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