Social networks, web-as-brain, and ’emergent’ infomation architecture

Ooohh – this pushed pretty much all my buttons… again, from today’s tomalak’s realm

“Some scientists argue that the structure of the Web
mirrors the organization of human and animal brains. The brain’s
architecture, a highly connected network of neurons joined by synapses,
is responsible for important functions such as perceptions, learning,
etc. The basic idea is that Web pages act as neurons and hypertext
links act as synapses. Web pages exist in complex patterns and
hypertext links direct the flow of information from one page to the
next.”

Transforming information retrieval on the Web: a new direction