A man in a pool of his own consciousness is shouting at me about poetry.
He contorts himself with passion as his rhetoric reaches its peak, and suddenly becomes self-awareness.
He shook the phone at me, declaring it a monument to human ambition. I feel like a tiny worm on a big hook after watching it.
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These are some weird videos.
It's no small feat to describe the series on his YouTube channel. It is a mash-up of art and technology that must be experienced.
Silva described the project during a chat.
A breakthrough new visual communication style, a glimpse of the future, where our inner life is externalized as a waking dream, like stepping into our imaginations.
Generative AI has infinite potential and it’s only the beginning. Collaborating with artificial intelligence and my buddy Heuman Instrument is simply a dream! Literally! We are making visual dreams!
The videos are powerful.
As someone who has spent their entire adult life interested in both concepts, I'm happy to report that Silva is the creator of Cyberdelic.
The first video is similar to the initial 45 minutes of acid trip in the desert.
The second in the series is filled with gravitas and passion, the moment when your mind is laid bare and contemplation becomes a revelation:
The third video, just released today, is a mind-bending resolution to the fervor of the preceding entries. Silva ties the concepts of cybernetics and psychedelics together. It's a great way to bring the energy down from the second video and leave the viewer in a state of hope.
I asked Silva what he wanted to do. It became obvious that he believes in the messages he is conveying.
My passion is storytelling and communication of richly mind expanding ideas. I am interested in finding artful ways of communicating ineffable experiences – insights of such ravishment, such poetic weight, that ordinary language simply will not do.
British philosopher Alain DeBotton said something like [paraphrasing] “while journalists may be more accurate in describing the details of an event than a poet, a poet may nevertheless reveal truth of a deeper sort, beyond the literal grid” — so I see my role to bring poetic storytelling to big meaningful ideas in the areas of creativity and technology, futurism and innovation, mental health, psychedelics and the singularity in which all those areas overlap!
I want people to have epiphanies when they see my videos.
The videos are works of art. It is apparent that a generative artificial intelligence model was trained on art pieces and then its output was used to create the visuals.
There is more to them than just the effects. Silva's speeches are about the nature of mental health, transhumanism, and what the future could look like.
Silva's message appears to be that we should stay true to our natural state of being curious and evolving by celebrating technology.
Check out the rest of Silva's work on the Shots of Awe channel. Follow him on the social media site.
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