BODY AS MACHINE THOUGHT: Human as mechanistic component in a network, human as network, networks within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within networks, within…
Connections within mind, to body, to outside world, absorbing information from networks, sharing to networks, collating within our internal network, networks in networks in networks, digital mind, organic mind, connection to both, can we bring together both minds, can we consider ourselves digital beings, can humans have digital expressions, we connect to the very definition of human as something vague and misunderstood, something we cannot prove or locate: consciousness? Why are humans hellbent on defining themselves and simultaneously othering technology? Can technology be fused to our sense of self, our sense of calm and ease? Can the overwhelming nature of technology and Internet be key to understanding the functions of self, of consciousness, of the central ‘I’? Can mental states be understood as having direct links to these devices, to the Internet?
‘As a young man, I naïvely visualised my consciousness as a bubble surrounding me: its contents were the moving pictures and sounds and other phenomena of experience. Beyond the bubble I assumed there lay an infinite blackness. I imagined this blackness as a symphony of pure quantities, interacting forces and energies and the like. The true reality ‘out there’ that my consciousness represents in the qualitative forms that it must.’
—Mark Solms (The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness)
Digital Prototype Installation