• Link Rot
• Distorted Prose
• mercury vs blood
• self harm as a singular vestige of autonomy
• self betterment as self harm
• tabula rasa blank slate, only outputting the inputs it’s given
• self awareness constrained to your own self – relativity
• we are in between silence
• self awareness squared
• every time u close eyes u die and reborn
• circles within circles – like a tree
• bobble head metaphor
• cybernetics

These are notes from another brainstorm I had – I haven’t researched a lot of these ideas properly (other than those that I have already referenced in this project), but I am trying to put a rough blueprint together to help with beginning to develop this prototype project into the final two projects.

This concept of everything spinning in a cycle has a lot of room to be developed, and I have come to understand the concept better myself as I have moved throughout this project. The idea of a tree having multiple rings form in the trunk as it grows is a good visual metaphor for me – the central ring was always there from when the tree began to grow, and the others are added as it grows older. Within the context of my own concept, I am not trying to insinuate that any cycle can be broken, I am instead focusing on that central ring (the self) as a metaphor for finding some sort of inner stability and a strong relationship with yourself when there are cycles within cycles built around you.

Another thing I want to focus on more is cybernetics, the origin of the word and how it has evolved (or devolved) over time. Ultimately all I really want these projects to communicate is that it is vital to observe what is around us, and every feedback loop, cycle, spiral, however you want to name it, rotates around that central ring. I think bringing cybernetics, science-fiction and machine intelligence into my research will be beneficial, as I feel it is a profound cross-section of humanity and what humanity has constructed. I am struggling to articulate this at this moment, but this post is really just intended to be a brainstorm where I can get my ideas written down.