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September 09 The Human FutureThe Human Future
If we're looking at the highlights of human development, you have to look at the evolution of the organism and then at the development of its interaction with the environment. Evolution of the organism will begin with the evolution of life perceived through the hominid coming to the evolution of mankind. Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man. Now, interestingly, what you're looking at here are three strings: biological, anthropological -- development of the cities -- and cultural, which is human expression.
Now, what you've seen here is the evolution of populations, not so much the evolution of individuals. And in addition, if you look at the time scales that are involved here -- two billion years for life, six million years for the hominid, 100,000 years for mankind as we know it -- you're beginning to see the telescoping nature of the evolutionary paradigm. And then when you get to agricultural, when you get to scientific revolution and industrial revolution, you're looking at 10,000 years, 400 years, 150 years. Uou're seeing a further telescoping of this evolutionary time. What that means is that as we go through the new evolution, it's gonna telescope to the point we should be able to see it manifest itself within our lifetime, within this generation.
The new evolution stems from information, and it stems from two types of information: digital and analog. The digital is artificial intelligence. The analog results from molecular biology, the cloning of the organism. And you knit the two together with neurobiology. Before on the old evolutionary paradigm, one would die and the other would grow and dominate. But under the new paradigm, they would exist as a mutually supportive, noncompetitive grouping. Okay, independent from the external.
And what is interesting here is that evolution now becomes an individually centered process, emanating from the needs and desires of the individual, and not an external process, a passive process where the individual is just at the whim of the collective. So, you produce a neo-human, okay, with a new individuality and a new consciousness. But that's only the beginning of the evolutionary cycle because as the next cycle proceeds, the input is now this new intelligence. As intelligence piles on intelligence, as ability piles on ability, the speed changes. Until what? Until we reach a crescendo in a way could be imagined as an enormous instantaneous fulfillment of human? human and neo-human potential. It could be something totally different. It could be the amplification of the individual, the multiplication of individual existences. Parallel existences now with the individual no longer restricted by time and space.
And the manifestations of this neo-human-type evolution, manifestations could be dramatically counter-intuitive. That's the interesting part. The old evolution is cold. It's sterile. It's efficient, okay? And its manifestations of those social adaptations. We're talking about parasitism, dominance, morality, okay? Uh, war, predation, these would be subject to de-emphasis. These will be subject to de-evolution. The new evolutionary paradigm will give us the human traits of truth, of loyalty, of justice, of freedom. These will be the manifestations of the new evolution. And that is what we would hope to see from this. That would be nice. May 23 DREAMDREAM
Using the computer and Internet I can be in your hands but simultaneously I can navigate with my images, my sounds and my words. I can be wherever you want me to be, I can be “printed”, “registered”, “catalogued”, “linked”, “updated”… I am on line, omnipresent.
Art as we once knew it composed of unchangeable images and shapes is definitely superseded. The stories and the spaces of my art take their shapes with digital techniques. A shaman, with the help of fungi or other hallucinogenic substances, helps us to live a parallel reality, this can now be produced through the work of a cybernetic artist wizard. I like to think of myself in this role or as the keeper of an endless archive of every possible sort of image. Digital memory can conserve the scenario of all narrative combinations, of all psychological inflexions; as a digital artist I am the sculptor of creations made of materials that do not belong to our solar system, I am the inventor of landscapes built with impossible chemical formulae. Mine is an art which regenerates itself through its contact with its spectators/actors: my dream becomes the dream of others and then returns to my video terminal ready for a new mutation.
The virtual world has become concrete: as the psyche modifies the body, this virtual world remodels the human one.
The divine nature of things finally becomes apparent: during the hallucinated trip we learn the inexpressible and have an intuition of the power of infinite mathematical combinations. On the screen I catch a glimpse of an infinite dream which is a language that is common to all: the infinitely fast exchanging of signs and dreams: private and mysterious to each human being, this will become the language/art of the future.
We will communicate with a language foreseen by the surrealistic avant-guarde, perceiving the obscure presence of the inexpressible through the power of imagery.
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