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The Movie Virus
The feeling of control is a unique feeling in that it usually entails a physical connection to a mental state. Our minds depend on control to function because control is dependent on prediction (see On Intelligence). Take a movie for example. The first time we see a movie we do not have control because we (hopefully) can’t predict what will be next in the subsequent scenes. Once we have watched a movie, however, we gain a sense of control over the movie, but lose the novelty.
What if a DVD movie had a “virus” that would alter scenes, lines, or even actors in the movie every time we watched it? The film could be set up in layers that each contain tiny variations of the scenes. The layers would slowly form holes or views into the layers below, allowing the film to be distorted and scenes to morph from scenario to scenario. The virus could shatter everything we ever knew about movie control.
Stimulating the Global Brain for Self-Generating Spectacles
I’m working on expanding on a article I recently wrote based on re-imagining how spectacles are created and coercive. Below is an excerpt from the introduction:
“Global creativity sits at the intersection of personal experience and social knowledge. As personal experiences become more integrated into social knowledge, social knowledge will in turn become part of personal experiences that are essential for establishing creative processes. What is going to drive the following discussion is the question of how to access the global brain to stimulate novel creativity and generate new forms of spectacle.”
