Dopplegang Musings

What is within the spectrum of a photograph? A photograph is always a representation of something created in the past. It contains a manipulated moment in time-nothing more. There is no soul in a photograph. A photo may be copied again and again to reproduce the same image, or an altered image in the dark room. But is the moment when the photo was taken ever truly copied? No. There is no recreating an entire moment through a lens. When a picture or even a movie is taken, hindsight is confined to the screen or print.
Photos from the past may be recreated, a cut up or collage is new, but its parts are not. When a photo is changed physically in any way, it is no longer a copy. Only the negative, a true image stands unique as art, which is a manipulation. Photographs are not copies of a time and place-they are fractions of the whole. If every angle were taken in an image, by an infinite number of cameras, the situation would still just grow exponentially, never reaching a whole number of being there.
Film takes time into consideration and an evolving space. Moving pictures or not, the lens is still only half the world. The art form is creating more with less. More emotion, and sensation by capturing from a fresh perspective and new angles. Film watchers never interact with the situation-though film makers do right up until that camera starts rolling. It is a fabricated whole, bringing up a curious point that being in Hollywood seems so fake to people. Props, sets, makeup, script, actors, the whole production is hours and hours of filming and multitudes of different takes. All to be edited down to one hundred and twenty minuets of entertainment.

Even biological doubles do not have entirely the same DNA. Mitochondrial DNA, unique to DNA contained in the nucleus is entirely its own. This may just be a finite portion, but in a physiological sense, different is different. Nature (deoxyribose nucleic acid) and nurture (experience) I remember hearing of a new clipping to clone Jesus so he can be in every home. All from the blood sample on the shroud of Turin. In no way can experiences of a lifetime be recreated. Yes it is possible for someone to have the same DNA in the nucleus- but controlling growth is entirely out of our range of creation. Nature and nurture of life is a combination of them both. Weather it be a clone, or identical twin-each would be an individual.
The issue of a splice follows this same idea. In Ribofunk, all splices were still grown from zygote form, blending of DNA. What if I grown body were somehow split down the middle, brain and all and joined with another body having the same operation. Left and right brain will then come into conscious play. A rewiring would take place, a growth into something new, never a copy.

The Filth and this idea of amnesia induced personality is a fragmented whole. A suggested livelihood pushed on the subject from his surroundings. With such calculated forms of control. The cat, the commie chimp smoking marijuana cigarettes. Tried and true responses growing in a lab. There is a choice if one is wise enough to listen to an innate intelligence of self as Ned Slade did. Each new round of Ned Slade will be a bit different. The issue of time travel and having multiple forms of the self as in Primer. The difference in each individual is the knowledge; the first multiple would have no knowledge of a second or third multiple. They could not be the same then. The nurture aspect of life is beyond recreation. As for the pataphysical realm it to is open to suggestion because it is not tangible through immediate experience. Being that it is individual imaginations that word it into being. Each realm is the eye of the beholder, isolated, crafted by nurture and nature.