Wednesday, 16 September 2020

Alien intelligence and human minds

A question keeps recurring again and again,
across all cultures and systems of thought:
where’s the core of consciousness in brain -
within the universe or in hands of God? 

They told me that God is the answer.
I said, no, you created it.
Okay, then science is the answer.
No, you created it.
Ah, then maths is surely the answer.
No, you created it.
“Uff, seems like I’m caught in myself -
what’s the way out of it? ”. 

Centuries of debates happened
over mind and matter,
philosophers were in trouble
when their ideas were shattered.
Until the night Turing arrived
and imagined a new dawn
of creating computations -
alien intelligence artificially spawn.

Smart move that was, now I am more keen -
How's our brain different from a machine?
What's this secret behind the scene


Machines are designed with rules to follow.
Humans make rules which they hardly follow.
‘Human with a machine brain’ seems like the new theorem -
where a cyborg vacillates between freedom and decorum.
Humans and machines seem like striking their chords,
transmuting into an army of cyborgs:
chips in brains, sensors in eyes,
to keep track of calories and time.

Wow! A cyborg standing on this slippery interface -
what will be more worthy for his solace -
some objective rules or his subjective space?


Looking at history of humanity it seems,
we attach value to our dreams -
Not the parcel delivered to your doorstep
but that soul-searching you begin after.
Not the person you meet on web,
but that magical real encounter. 

The world in future will have a society -
not built on our rules, but on our autonomy.
The song that you create, the painting that you make.
The pun that you quip and the laugh that we all share.
A social structure built on pillars of arts -
will set everyone equal on charts.
No new rules to make,
no old rules to break.

Though as we become more algorithmic,
your heart will strive to stay rhythmic.
Rules will feed a dead life in you,
so you'll yearn for a life in you.
There might be times of depression -
of less free will and maybe oppression.
The mantra is: to breathe and meditate,
to be able to love and to create. 

Wow! This world is so full of excitement and tension.
I guess I have found hints to my old question -
that part of my consciousness is in the machine,
and the valuable part is working behind the scene.


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%strands of thoughts

AI as alien intelligence

controlling our brain

making rules for us to follow

control on ourselves is reducing

algorithmic and non-algorithmic part of brain

non-algorithmic part reducing 

value of money here

to meditate, arts etc..is what is the future economy.


Tuesday, 8 September 2020

To make "film" philosophically self-consistent

Medium of "film" is debated - if it qualifies as an art form or not. Those who believe it's an art, find certain conditions to be able to do so. A primary condition is to enable film as a mediative source of invoking consciousness. The visual/verbal stimuli it delivers should make the audience understand/reflect on the form it delivers and become a participant in the form which the creator of film was already a part of. There are certain easy techniques to do that, which shouldn't become the sole method of making film an art. For example, to make characters recite a poem on screen makes film a medium to access another form. To make film an art, it has to crudely invoke consciousness in your mind by finding and establishing certain putative features of itself and using them. 

Having done that, let say, now my aim is to make a film as an art form do philosophy. If I am able to achieve that in a perfect wotld, it means that philosophy and art are abridged through the medium of film. In other words, a film has its crude elements which are philosophically rich (be it the mathematical sequences of images - logical positivism etc.) and act as a guiding medium of consciousness for the viewer. In effect, film resources do all the "hard" task of philosophy and what an audience gets is the "soft" part of arts portrayed thereby. Depending on the type of philosophy, the "hard" task can be undertaken by the creator (rational) or left for viewer to interpret (open ended). For the former, there is a clear distinction between arts and philosophy, while for the latter, both things are merged together seemlessly and the question of arts and philosophy is in the minds of viewer (creator can only attempt different techniques). 

It is quite interesting to think of ways to do that. In rational sense, the best approach is to try different philosophical systems and find technical means of putting them in film. It can be done using the seqeunce of images shown in film or some other visual means which are artistic in nature.

Key ideas - Structural (minimalist) films like Serene velocity 1970. 

Citation - Plato Stanford, philosophy of film.

Solution:

1. Web cam technique is a nice methodogical-practical technique to create infinite frames sequentially. 
2. Let's shoot near the grantchester river, to aim for a infinite long distance location - keeping the stand static. 
3.  Time lapse of the whole video would be best. 5 mins step.