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Dream Tower *AI generated* by #NeuroSchism

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The Tibetan goddess White Tārā, a representation of the Healing Mother archetype or else Mother of all Buddhas.~

 Oṃ Tāre Tuttāre Ture Mama Ayuḥ Punya Jñānā Puṣtiṃ Kuru Svāhā

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Artificial Emotions

Think for a moment about the five senses.

  The senses provide the brain with information. The brain translates this information into a language that it understands. The brain labels it, categorizes it, determines its value, and determines whether or not action should be taken. 

Sight. Sound. Smell. Taste. Touch.

The instruments of the human body that collect information are limited and simplistic: the eyes, Ears, Nose, Mouth, and Skin. These parts of the body were critical for the survival of primitive beings. However, as the environment changes, the brain requires more complex information that cannot be easily obtained by the five senses alone.

  Humans have learned to create and use tools to collect information outside the five senses. For example, the eyes alone cannot see the entire universe, so humans created the telescope. The telescope provided information that a human being alone could not perceive. The information discovered from the telescope allowed human beings to experiment and learn more complex information. 

The better the tools, the quicker we collect information. Human beings have discovered and created magnificent tools at an increasing rate, one of which is Artificial Intelligence (AI). The creation of this tool brings us to a very critical moment in the evolution of life as we are now able to "sense" and collect information at an exponential rate. This begs the question of whether the human brain can keep up with the amount of information AND make decisions as quickly as the tool we have created. 

Human physiology and anatomy are comprised of different systems. The endocrine system, for example, creates the hormones responsible for emotions. Emotions help the body take action for survival. Many argue that emotions make us different from the tools we have created. However, AI puts an ethical spotlight on human emotions and whether or not the tools we developed can experience feelings such as emotions. 

Can an endocrine system exist without human physiology and anatomy? Can artificial intelligence systems evolve so human elements such as emotions become unnecessary? 

Are we wasting our time focusing on trying to manage our emotions and feelings?

Or is this a distraction from learning to integrate AI systems with human systems to evolve and continue existing?

Let me consult my AI therapist app on my smartphone and get back to you. 

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Alice Sweet Alice (Alfred Sole, 1976)

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Hecate, the female aspect of Hermes, his Anima, the One who intervenes from afar, the Distant and Near…Key Holder and Keeper of Mysteries, during the night time She protects those who seek Her sanctuary while in the uncertain hours…Since the female aspect of the Soul, that is Anima, is Completion…any man should seek and make peace with his Anima so to achieve a heightened state of Being…Perfection is for the Gods, but Completion is a process Here and Now… Maximilián Pirner. “Hecate”. (1901)

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The Penitent Magdalene (detail, 1598) Lodovico Cardi

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My Most Beautiful Lady, May I Dare by Ephraim Moses Lilien (Early 20th Century)

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Down the Rabbit Hole

Once again you push me into the hole and I'm falling and falling as everything becomes darker and darker.

You keep kicking me down just to see how much pain I can take.

There's a problem with being too smart for your own good. You watch yourself being a stupid pathetic human being. You know when you are not functioning and you can't do anything about it.

I need to escape this fiery hell they call life.

SAM - you win yet again.

Holding me back from the success I could be. Keeping me down.

Is this how my life will always be? A constant stumbling over you.

Watching this shit happen and wanting to scream.

There's an evil laughter that now escapes out of me cracking the mask....

Perhaps SAM, I should just let you out of the shadows and be done with "me".

I fear the entire collective unconscious is falling down the abyss.

The entire world is breaking apart and I need to get back up into my tower. So that the storm is not really as big as it seems.

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James Sant, "Courage, Anxiety and Despair: Watching the Battle", ca. 1850

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Pan Consoling Psyche by Ernst Klimt (1892)

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New Moon Today - Reconnect with my soul

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By Brianna Jolie 2021

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“However, the uniqueness of Hecate lies in the ease with which she borrows the features of the goddess she accompanies, whether it is Demeter, Persephone, Artemis or the Mother of the Gods. This facility sometimes leads to the perfect identification of the two figures. Rather than the result of a merger considered typical of female relationships, this shift from the boundary to the center reflects the essence of the in-between. As an intermediate figure, Hecate does not represent a brushing of opposite poles, but a mixture of qualities that would otherwise be separate. Situated between a divinity and her priestess (or her followers), she is then capable of adopting sometimes the attitude of one or sometimes that of the other. In the context of mystery cults, theurgy, or magic, we sometimes observe a tendency to transform marginal figures into major powers. However, Hecate plays a major role in systems which aim at personal contact with the divine and at the conception of a universe without discontinuities.”

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Athanassia Zografou, Chemins d'Hécate (Paths of Hecate)    

(translated by Google Translate)

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RESISTANCE TO PITY

"...the tower teaches Psyche, "pity is not lawful." If, as we shall proceed to show, all Psyche's acts present a rite of initiation, this prohibition implies the insistence on "ego stability" characteristic of every initiation. Among men this stability is manifested as endurance of pain, hunger, thirst, and so forth; but IN THE FEMININE SPHERE IT CHARACTERISTICALLY TAKES THE FORM OF RESISTANCE TO PITY. This firmness of the strong-willed ego, concentrated on its goal, is expressed in countless other myths and fairy tales, which their injunctions not to turn around, not to answer, and the like. While ego stability is a very masculine virtue; it is more; for it is the presupposition of consciousness and of all conscious activity.

The feminine is threatened in its ego stability by the danger of distraction through "relatedness," through Eros. This is the difficult task that confronts every feminine psyche on its way to individuation: it must suspend the claim of what is close at hand for the sake of a distant abstract goal.

.....The universal component of relatedness is so essential a part of the collective structure of the feminine psyche that Briffault regards it as the foundation of all human community and culture, which he derives from the feminine group with its bond between mothers and children. But this bond is not individual but collective; it pertains to the Great Mother in her aspect as preserver of life, as goddess of fertility, who is not concerned with the individual and individuation, but with the group, which she bids to "be fruitful and multiply."

From Amor & Psyche - The Psychic Development of the Feminine" By Erich Neumann

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After Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson (1767-1824), Danaë, 1824, lithograph. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Gnome falls in love with the Princess, from The Brown Fairy Book by Henry Justice Ford (1904)