In play with Gordon Gallup Jr.’s Mirror test, here is a human-generated digitized visual steppingstone sequence, triggering ethos (ethics), pathos (emotion, passion) and logos (logic, semiotics) toward today’s techne (technique, technology).
This visual sequence (see visual references here below ), or any like it, could be offering us imaginary and livable hints of recursive escapisms by human-made ghosts into, and from, the dopamine triggering and-or fear mongering Droste-effected Parroting infinite Mirrors, AI Mirrors and Mirror Tests, Stochastic Narcissistic idealized self-satisfactions (see TikTok aesthetic video filters for human young-ified and stereotypically hyper-reinforced beautified appearances), Human-to-artifact Feedback spirals, Visually-polished Echo-chambers, mechanomorphist reductions of human experiences and more pleasantries and crunchy pastries of our real virtualities .
Following the above poetic listing (or poetry at its worst), one might sense an aversion or dizziness. However, the generative nature was all human. The artificial versions thereof are even more mechanized in quantity and mesmerizing with qualities which we too eagerly impose onto them.
The mechanically overproduced simulacra are alive and kicking, even if formal logic were to denounces these; statistics generates its offspring as if a Cornu Copia of Fast Fed Content saturations.
Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Droste_Cacao_Alcalinise_blikje%2C_foto4.JPG
Droste Effect:
https://www.josleys.com/article_show.php?id=82
AI Mirror Test:
https://www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-intelligent-sentient-mirror-test
Parrots
Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. 2021. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 610–623. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922
mechanical reproduction
Benjamin, W. (1935). The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
from nothingness to everything everywhere all the time
Boudrillard, J.(1981 ). Simulacres et Simulation.