a neural signal has delay just as the internet has, so this is not reason for the net to be sentient as argumented

anyway if its not now eventually it will happen

how many ai are interconected?

eventually the singularity will appear if it hasnt done already and the place can not be other that the web as scott card proposed not a single pc,

not to mention the true random number generators connected to the web which may even give it free will and therefore a spirit