Bonus Ghibli: Eve Theory of Consciousness
Simplifying my Biblical commentary to a few images
I am in awe at how dense myths can be. The Fall of Adam and Eve occupies just a few pages in Genesis, and yet it richly captures what it would be like to wake up to one’s role as an agent—the Knowledge of Good and Evil—to become “like the gods.” It’s a metaphor so psychologically potent that billions interpret their soul through its lens.
OpenAI’s new image generation model is the first that can create complex scenes that include text. I take the opportunity to try and express my version of Genesis as parsimoniously as Moses.
Debates about AI’s role in art rage on. But one underrated Take is how useful AI-generated imagery is for non-artists, who often can’t even clearly picture what they’re after. Every image I generate is a conversation, a back-and-forth negotiation between me and the AI. GPT still messes up—a lot—and human intervention would be necessary if I ever wanted to produce an actual book. But at least now I’d know what to ask for.
Anyway, it was fun to make the Most Complex AI-Ghibli yet. Feedback appreciated—and feel free to share the whimsy!
Way cool. Kudos brother.
I do think it is the other way around, self-consciousness arises in noticing we are. Empathy at the very least, which overrides threat detection in our agency-detection bias, and allows social learning to occur in the first place.
https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/social-learning-101
and very recently https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/reading-joseph-henrich-one
"We are: and not "I am", at least it's a figure/ground issue, but evolution works on the individual necker-cube first and the inter-group selection necker-cube second.
"necker cube" discussed at https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/robert-ardrey-and-richard-dawkins
Potentially same sex order however (See Ellen Dissanayake as example ---must do post).
And the pool is likely the sky pool of the world, a self heaven if you will.
https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/the-sky-pool
We still cannot see the world, like-fish-in-water-who-do-not-notice-the-water.
If your world's institutions are primarily focused in individuals then you will cut the world up that way and wonder where the bits originate, when really, it is a complex mess, and the bits are the figures what you notice, and the ground you walk on or the water you swim in is not perceived at all.