1. Introduction.

Our fundamental idea here, based on connectionism, is that the intelligence and morphogenesis of the World Wide Web (WWW) has to do with the density and growth of links between different nodes. To explore this, we create a sub-web, by selecting certain groups of domains as the nodes of a web. We then use the AltaVista index of the WWW as a source of data on the number of pages at each node, and number of links between one node and another. The synergy, a relative density defined below, is then computed from this data, for all pairs of nodes, and recorded in a matrix of nonnegative real numbers, the synergy matrix. We view the WWW as the nervous system of the emerging planetary society, and propose to image the neurogenesis of this process, as an ongoing project of Operation Webwatch.

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