But may I suggest you pay your Sys-Admins more money :-)
Links should not be stochastic. Nor should notes go down to sleep for a while after they routed some data. Where are the different neuro transmitters on the Web ? Speeding up data didn’t give any meaning to that data on the web last time I checked. Most Neurons have many to many relations, web links are one to one.
In other word comparing or associating as the same web links and brain connections is just plain wrong. If I would know what intelligence is, I would call the web “collective dumbness” since it is a forced memorization system. Nothing wrong with that, but any brain and the web are really, really different and so are the connections and links. Following a link retrieves data, one to one. Transmitting a neuro transmitter, hoping it’s not one which shuts down the receiving neurons, just doesn’t do anything like that.

Synapic Web isn’t about making the web into a brain, only to recognize that the connections on the web are just as, if not more, important than the nodes.

More here: http://www.synapticweb.org

You mean there were “thoughts” and “ideas” in your original post? Where? Are they visible to the naked eye?

Neuron behavior, which “selects” the “routing/activation” of connections, without firing most connections mean absolutely nothing.:

Firing is stochastic (doesn’t improve with learning)
Firing pause (deterministic)
Transmit different neuro transmitters (different neurons)
Have different sheaths of myelin for faster transfer
Glial cells create/absorb transmitters in a none uniform distribution
.etc,etc …

In other words if your model/understanding doesn’t take into account different levels of myelin for example, the underlying math is most probably as wrong as boolean logic. It’s a little more complicated then connections and/or firing, otherwise there would be no MS and related illnesses.

Even if you forget all of this, how does feedback fit into the picture? Which I hope everybody recognizes as a very important part of any smart system.
Which brings up the question. Is it internal or external feedback and how is it distinguished? In other words there have to be “notes” in a social web which are internal and provide feedback and some which are external, otherwise you end up with an incredible mess. Not all feedback can be treated equal, there is also the matter of trust and (perceived) truth.

To sum it up, I don’t think a social web can ever be one big brain (ever worked on a system designed by committee), but it should involve to be a brain of brains (or information centers, brains don’t have to be smart, as long as they transform data into information,which is just an organizational process). A network of networks was actually a pretty smart move.

Let’s see what Om has to say.

The software and the way its build (multiple tools with RSS endpoints) can be used for both.

:) nmw

Thanks for the mention. Blogs are and continue to be synthesized thoughts that are more than in-the-moment emotions that are broadcast on popular social media sites. Getting to know the author is most of the benefit of social media. Knowing the source of the opinion is the only thing that gives life to the comments that are echo’ed and the information that is searched in Lijit.

-t