I'm glad you figured out something interesting to do with that passage from Moby Dick. It has been sitting on the pages of my journal for two years now, asking to be deployed in some way relevant to our modern predicaments.
Drones are a rich way to think about new technologies of seeing as they are harnessed to death and destruction as well as enabling new ways of seeing human communities as birds.
My thoughts went immediately to The Blue Marble photograph, which represents a uniquely human way of seeing the world.
Yes! I was thinking about that photograph too. I'm now trying to square these thoughts with my aphantasia/hyperphantasia piece, about whether and how those with different inner visualization capabilities "see" or don't see multiple perspectives.
What would Melville write if he knew that each eye contained thousands of rods and it processed the input of each rod simultaneously as well as processing thousands of inner ear hairs simultaneously as it listened to its surroundings?
I'm glad you figured out something interesting to do with that passage from Moby Dick. It has been sitting on the pages of my journal for two years now, asking to be deployed in some way relevant to our modern predicaments.
Drones are a rich way to think about new technologies of seeing as they are harnessed to death and destruction as well as enabling new ways of seeing human communities as birds.
My thoughts went immediately to The Blue Marble photograph, which represents a uniquely human way of seeing the world.
Yes! I was thinking about that photograph too. I'm now trying to square these thoughts with my aphantasia/hyperphantasia piece, about whether and how those with different inner visualization capabilities "see" or don't see multiple perspectives.
What would Melville write if he knew that each eye contained thousands of rods and it processed the input of each rod simultaneously as well as processing thousands of inner ear hairs simultaneously as it listened to its surroundings?
He would respond "write your own book. This is my book."
I think he would have been more poetic about it. Maybe he would have never finished the book going down rabbit hole after rabbit hole 😎
The omniscient of AI is but an illusion…