The Original
The other night I was thinking about the notion of replicated form. I wrote,
Information that can be copied, will be. To take it a step further, I believe that new information seeks to be born by combining certain building blocks of other information into a kind of information DNA. Certain ideas tend to cluster and, in a human mind, assemble a new idea or give birth to new information. The whole system of tagging on the internet just excellerates this process. Looking at artistic forms as memetic cultural fluid poring through the human collective organism gives a species wide vantage point to the creation of cultural works. Seeing creation in this way explains why one artist will have a vision for a design and see it two weeks later across the world in the work of another artist.
I'm talking about looking at the creation of artwork as a living system existing in the human collective web of consciousness, woven through the collective processing of the entire machine. In this view, all minds are single pieces in a giant linked system, only believing they are individual agents in an emergent ecology.
"In a world, an ecology of replication, how is a sense of freedom and individual experience derived? Is there a value to individuality and where is the line between biography, biology, human nature and machines? Isn't biology itself a giant organic replicating system? Do digital forms beckon for replication and repetition in the same way that organic ones do?
Once forms are replicated to a point of internal motion a "multiform" emerges and becomes an Organism. When multiple organisms move in synchronicity and develop inner dependance we have a system. The mutation and selection of forms in this system creates evolution."
Information that can be copied, will be. To take it a step further, I believe that new information seeks to be born by combining certain building blocks of other information into a kind of information DNA. Certain ideas tend to cluster and, in a human mind, assemble a new idea or give birth to new information. The whole system of tagging on the internet just excellerates this process. Looking at artistic forms as memetic cultural fluid poring through the human collective organism gives a species wide vantage point to the creation of cultural works. Seeing creation in this way explains why one artist will have a vision for a design and see it two weeks later across the world in the work of another artist.
I'm talking about looking at the creation of artwork as a living system existing in the human collective web of consciousness, woven through the collective processing of the entire machine. In this view, all minds are single pieces in a giant linked system, only believing they are individual agents in an emergent ecology.
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