Inverse Relationship of Animals With Machines

Humans manipulate animals, and create machines. Both are subservient to human desires-beneath the hierarchy of humanity. Training animals is a skill just a programming a machine, but the variable of emotion cannot be accounted for by an algorithm yet. Animals carry knowledge, not just intelligence-primitive and predictable as it may be, it still necessitates our respect. “For quite a long while, like Hitchcock, I’ve considered birds as a kind of metaphysical feat. The bird is never what it is empirically, it surpasses itself, it is already spiritualized, inscribed as something which can kill or save.” (46, Life Extreme) Machines have not been given this sort of power. Can code surpass its own code? This is an issue of artificial intelligence, machines coding for other machines is a topic I will not digress into. Right now, if humans did not have any interaction with the sensuous world, animals would continue evolving, machines would not.
Ribofunk and its projection of the future beings about wild machine/animal beings. Their place in the world is still for mankind’s using. Programmed as a machine but still with animal instincts is the splice. There are various forms of control, but there are loops to be found. Krazy Kat for example, the bad splice. This splice has the ability to be good or bad-outside of our control. The Kat has feelings, ambitions, and anger. This thought revolution is very possible with such human, animal, and machine mergers. The more we become dependent on these creations, teaching them, programming routes of existence of near self sufficiency. The less they become dependent on the human race, their creators.

Ribofunk’s representation is that of a future time, Life Extreme accounts for today. We create animals with no feathers, enlarged chicken breasts that disable their ability to even walk. These manipulations are convergent to human desires and divergent to Darwinian evolution. “What is the living being? The stability of life or of the living is thrown off course-especially when one invokes technology or machinery, which lean more towards death.” (13, Life Extreme) Humanity is pushing animals away from their life and pushing machines towards a virtual human life in a way. In with the new and out with the old. Machines will dominate the landscape; animals are defenseless to our actions. This is so because it is too difficult to cater to animals in a wild setting-turn the tables and have them cater to us.

Everything created by humans is held dear to our hearts. We assimilate machines as apart of ourselves-growing with/into them in the future. Animals are a divergent evolution of the past, our own primitive cerebellum brain of fight or flight. When Ribofunk reigns supreme, the Splice will more machine then animal. Modified with the best parts of both-there will be no distinction at this point. But it is the animal part that we can relate to, embrace through eye contact. There is home in a beating heart. Life desires life, filling the roll of the exotic Other in the far off future when there are more machines than humans. Humans are top of the food chain, and top of the life chain. Puppeteers of the sensuous world- carrying on towards death in this form of living. 51% or 49% Both are alive, but it is a dominance over the rest that is decided by a fraction. Animals were regarded as less important in the past, and will be until their numbers are so few that we will desire them once again. Remixed and re-imagined through machinery. Technology on the other hand will only grow, with or without of compliance in due time. We may grow tired of it in time. Its relationship with humans compared to animals and humans are inversely proportional. More of less of one of the other comes in cycles. Do not forget that there was a time when animals dominated humans with their size, speed, and natural ability.