From Stephe Ellis
Your correspondent Henry Warwick insists that the Internet is not a brain,
but merely a collection of computers passing voltages to each other
(15 July, p 52).
It is truly remarkable that such an observation should emerge, as it
undoubtedly did, from a few litres of lukewarm water and a collection of complex
molecules.
In the face of such a miracle, isn’t it arrogant of us to suppose that our
brains are uniquely governed by some mysterious principle, forever incapable of
affecting any other system, however complex?
s.ellis@pindar.com
