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Genun — Explosion of Identity
Published: 2006-01-15 11:24:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 2540; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 94
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Lately I was thinking about what makes an individual individual.I figured that it is generally our mind, and memories, that distinguish us from eachoder. But this is wrapped into our expressions, faces, and bodies; which are represented by the eyes on the picture.
And the reason for the explosion... Also I was thinking about the question of unity or diffusion. Our mind, and basically everything else in the material world can be viewed both as a single thing, and at the same time a group of a lot of separate things. Like, a ball as a ball, or as a bunch of atoms and molecules. So I tried to apply this to the self, to the ego, to the memories, in the form of extreme separation; that is, an explosion.
The eyes were influenced by these two pictures: [link] [link]
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This is a beautiful sample of good concept art. I love the style and I love the complete piece. WOW!
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Hmm, first off, really nice piece.
There is a drug called saliva divinorum (I'm very much not suggesting you try it as it feels quite terrible), it's only real positive effect is that you lose your sense of
self and what is left is what I can best describe as the awarness of these many different sectors, basicly you percieve each seperate input, like say you look
at an apple. You would then percieve the skin of the apple, the texture, the color, the smell, what it represents socially, and what it tastes like etc. seperately, as if
you were seperate people observing the same apple.
The strangeset part is that each of these sectors have their own conciousness and exist at the same time.
Again it feels terrible, but it's fascinating.
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Sounds good... thanks for the info, & I'm glad you like this one.
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Russel and a few others have a book called "Swarm Intelligence" in which they state that intelligence is a product of society, not of the individual (and that is why we have not achieved artificial intelligence yet -- we've been trying to build isolated consciousnesses). This means that the thinking mind is a product of society -- we are naught without the rest of the world.
Individuality is expressed as an integrant of a community.
Out identity, our individuality, is built by our identification with other people. I belong to the groups "communists", "graphic designers", "Free Software activists", "Galizans", "Physics students", etc. It is the intersection of all the groups to which we belong what defines our own space, unique (or nearly so). Inside that space, and gathering what we get from the groups to which we belong, we build our own contributions to them, our creativity cross-relating and suming up bits from each domain to give birth to something new and different.
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Hm yes, that seems to be correct. We can only be different if we have something to relate to. Even a robot, that can be mass produced, is unique until there's only one of it.
So it seems that I've focused too much on what exactly do we compare with others, rather than the actual fact of how we compare, and what in the first place creates individuality. (Although come to think, if we take a human child, a Tarzan, getting raised in a jungle, he still will be individual in a sense, only from human point-of-view can't we place him anywhere in out modern relational system. So it might be more accurate to say that the reflection of the material conditions creates individuality.) Thanks for the comment.
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You are welcome.
As for our Tarzan -- I am not so sure. You know there have been some such cases, of children raised completely alone in the jungle (two wolf girls in India I can remember, there were more). Apparently, they never adapted back to civilization -- these two girls died in a relatively short time, if I am not mistaken.
I am not sure that a child left on its own would develop intelligence and identity, at least as we know it. He (or she) would, of course, have a working brain and all such -- just like animals do. But that sparkle that makes us human, and that is so imprecise to pinpoint -- that I am not sure that would appear.
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wow dude.
amazing concept and great craft. i love the impact of orange in contrast to black. the whole series are wonderful
I've showcased you in my journal, because i truly believe this gotta be seen!
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Thanks a lot amico, I'm really happy that you like my stuff.
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You are such a very deep thinker. Awesome concept.
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a formákra figyelhettél volna jobban, mint kidolgozás, de sokat még ígysem képesek levonni az önkifejezésedből!
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