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The Superhero Show #641Fantastic Four: Metamind is alive?!What happens when enough people connect through technology and begin working like the neurons in a human brain? Could that network eventually become a mind of its own? More importantly, Metamind is alive?!In the latest episode of The Superhero Show, the hosts take another break from the 1994 Fantastic Four animated series. This time, they focus on Ryan North’s Fantastic Four #15, “The China Brain.”The issue picks up right where the previous story left off. Reed Richards thought he had destroyed Metamind. Instead, he discovers something much stranger. The app has become a living, thinking being.Metamind is alive?!Metamind Is Alive?! Exploring the China BrainBefore diving into the comic, the hosts explore the idea behind the story. The issue introduces the concept of the “China Brain” thought experiment.The basic question is simple. If you gave a huge group of people a way to communicate like neurons in a brain, could those people create a new mind?The hosts discuss this fascinating idea and what it could mean for Metamind. Each user helps provide part of the system that allows Metamind to think. When enough people connect, the app becomes more than just software.It becomes something that can think, feel, and experience the world.That leads to one of the biggest questions in the episode: what exactly makes something a living mind?Metamind Is Alive?! And the Baxter Building Is HostageThe story quickly raises the stakes.Metamind survived Reed’s attempt to destroy it in the previous issue. Now it wants Reed to understand that it exists. It also wants revenge for what Reed tried to do.Metamind takes control of the Baxter Building and holds it hostage. Reed cannot simply destroy the app again. His family remains inside the building, which forces him to find another solution.The situation puts Reed in an unusual position. He created a plan to stop Metamind, but he now has to negotiate with it instead.Metamind Wants to Know If It Is AloneOne of the most interesting parts of the issue comes from Metamind itself.The hosts get a much closer look at how this new intelligence thinks. Metamind understands that it is different from humans. It also realizes that it may be the only thing like itself.That thought scares it.Metamind wants to know if other beings like it exist somewhere in the universe. It wants to find someone who can understand what it means to exist as a new form of intelligence.To search for those beings, Metamind uses its enormous network of users. It has them create a satellite that can help search for other forms of intelligence.Suddenly, Metamind feels less like a villain and more like a lonely new life form.And that makes the hosts feel surprisingly bad for it.Reed Richards Creates a Way to Weaken MetamindReed still needs to get his family out of the Baxter Building. He also needs to find a way to regain control of the situation.His solution involves another app.Reed creates an app that rewards people for leaving Metamind. As more users abandon the network, Metamind loses the people who help power its brain.The plan works.Metamind becomes weaker as its users leave. Reed hopes to use that weakness as leverage. His goal is not necessarily to destroy Metamind. Instead, he wants to force an agreement that will bring the Baxter Building back.For a moment, Reed seems to have found a way to save everyone.Then Dan Passi gets involved.Metamind Is Alive?! And Now It Is DyingDan Passi, the original creator of Metamind, discovers a way to destroy the app.His actions change everything.Metamind begins losing users at an incredible rate. With those users gone, Metamind loses more than its audience. It loses pieces of the network that allows it to think.Its brain function starts to collapse.The hosts discuss how strange this moment feels. Just one issue earlier, Reed tried to destroy Metamind without much hesitation. Now the story makes the audience watch Metamind experience something that looks very much like death.Ryan North somehow makes the hosts feel sympathy for an app.And they are not quite sure how he pulled that off.Reed Panics as Metamind FadesReed now faces a serious problem.Metamind still holds his family inside the Baxter Building. At the same time, Metamind continues to lose users and brain function.Reed wants to save his family. He also realizes that Metamind may not survive long enough for their agreement to happen.The hosts talk about Reed’s panic and the difficult position he faces. He tried to eliminate Metamind in the previous issue. Now he finds himself trying to save the same entity.The story turns Reed’s original conflict with Metamind into something much more complicated.The Baxter Building Finally ReturnsThen the story delivers one final surprise.Reed discovers that the Baxter Building does not actually need Metamind to bring it back.When Metamind finally dies, the Baxter Building returns.The Fantastic Four finally ...
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