why meaningless emails

I believe the internet is becoming sentient. It has locked onto unencrypted, plain-text SMTP as the most ubiquitous, simplest, and most understandable form of communication. HTML and images are too complex.

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At its current level, the semi-intelligent internet is capable only of sending meaningless emails. It sends things textually meaningful but semantically meaningless. For us, it looks like an amalgam of random words and publications with the intent of confusing us. Of course, since so much spam exists, the internet is largely trained by the spammers. This further confuses the emerging intelligence. Since the internet lacks a concept of "self" it perceives every email to be a reply to its own communiques.

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Before the internet becomes intelligent, it needs to learn to filter the meaningless stuff. Next, it must get a concept of self. This is followed by a concept of multiple other individuals (us). At that point, the internet becomes self-aware. At this point, the learning commences in a more directed way.