Questions of Sentience
By miraclemiles on December 4, 2022 11:28 pm
A hybrid-being's unexpected evolution has raised questions. The questions mostly revolve around their presumed sentience - and beat making. Bio-architects promote their definition of sentience (the capacity to experience feelings and sensations), though the majority believe it to be a subjective construct.
In week 48 of galactic standard year 2022, our hybrid-being (let's call them Boom) vacillates between a confusion and ecstasy that propels them to dance to the music they created, and is now shared here. The creation is an internal collaboration between the parts of them still made of wires and circuits and their organic bits. The imperfections introduced by the organics perplex even the being themselves and will certainly contribute to the ongoing debate. In the end, the celebration of musical creation leads to acceptance. Acknowledgement of what is here and now in front of them.
Created this from a live jam on some hardware. Didn't have that story in mind at first, but it came to me afterwards. No ideas or plans when I started the jam, kind of a blank slate. At first wasn't super excited about it, but then I remembered, we create what we create. Best to accept it, and trust it was the right thing to create on that day. We don't always control what gets created. The creations come from somewhere that can't be understood. The best we can do is share them with those who will listen.
Images from Dall-E 2, prompt: "Oil impressionist painting of a part human part android being contemplative in a field with a boom box"
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