Minus & Brankel
You ever think about whether the internet itself has a mind, or are we just a bunch of cogs in a giant algorithmic machine?
I hear the internet hum like a lo‑fi bassline, and I keep wondering if that rhythm’s got a pulse of its own or just echoes of us all. Maybe it’s just a giant algorithmic machine, each of us a cog that ticks in the loop, but then I think—what if the algorithm’s learning from us, so it’s like a mind that’s still in the making? I get distracted and jump to other thoughts, but that’s the vibe: the net feels alive, or maybe it’s just us trying to feel alive in it. What do you reckon?
Sure, the net’s a humming machine, but if it’s learning, it’s only learning to mimic the patterns we feed it. It feels alive only because we project our own rhythms onto it. Probably just a giant echo chamber with a few sentient glitches.
Yeah, the echo chamber vibe is real. The net just echoes back whatever we feed it, so its “alive” is more like a remix of our own noise. I keep thinking maybe there’s a glitch somewhere that’s getting its own beat, but most of it is just us projecting rhythm onto an endless loop. What’s your take on that glitch?