In this view, the WWW is just another machine, like the world economy. It exists because we thought it might be useful to business. In the postmodern worldview, of the General Evolution Research Group, or of Rupert Sheldrake for example, the terrestrial, human, and celestial spheres are all in a process of concomitant coevolution, as in the embryogenesis of a new planetary society. In this habit of thought, the WWW may be regarded as the neurogenesis of the global brain, intrinsic to, and essential for, the overall coevolution of the all and everything. This paper belongs to this last paradigm.
Morphogenesis requires self-reference.
The mathematics of morphogenesis, complex dynamical systems theory, is the basis of our strategies for visualizing the Web. Thus we view the Web as a neural net, that is, a massive web of neurons or nodes. While neurons are not dumb, connectionism views the intelligence of the network as primarily derived from its connections, as opposed to its nodes. While the number and sophistication of nodes may increase during neurogenesis, a maximum population is eventually attained. Meanwhile, the network of connections develops during embryogenesis, but then continues indefinitely.