MSD, as I stated earlier, I see it as being all those things already.
Hal's response above indicates he also sees the forum as a "collective consciousness," by his statement:
"I tap into that pool all the time to discern trends and needs. Using that information, I make changes to policy/software accordingly."
To follow your description to the letter, let's use the analogy of the brain. If the forum is the brain of a sentient being whose neurons are ourselves, would you consider the the brain itself to be a sentient being? It has more to do with how it's all defined and whre ther seat of consciousness is placed. In the human being, for example, we can be defined in several ways as collective or aggregate organisms.
I think we can draw up a plausible scenario in which the current state of the TFP can be described as a "sentient being."
Why wait for v10?
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