The Mechanics of Emotions by Maurice Benayoun

The World Nervous System

With the communication networks, the World is now equipped with an extensive nervous system. From any point on the planet, we can feel in real time what's happening on any other spot as soon as it is connected to the Net and English speaking. Internet is the first self-organised worldwide language-and-socially filtered observation system. The World Emotional Mapping

It is now easy, thanks to any existing search engine running on the Web, to build a semantic map of any concept. Not even trying to understand what is behind a single use of one word, we know now how many times a word is used in correlation with another. For our purpose we track the words in correlation with locations. According to the number of occurrences, the original keyword is located on the map with the appropriate size.

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