Art is about transmission. When I do an artwork, I'm trying to transmit something ranging from an idea or concept I had, all the way to the recounting, within the inherent limitations of human language, from a metaphysical experience I felt.And a question naturally emerges: to whom, or to what thing, am I trying to transmit these? Preferably, the other side should be able to experience, or at least understand from their own subjectiveness, what a "spiritual experience" is. ChatGPT and the alike can't experience a theophany or a gnosis. The best an algorithm could (theoretically) do, at least as far as I believe, is serving as an Ouija board of sorts, I.e. being a medium for dæmonic entities and/or Goddess to communicate with me, someone still trapped in a biological existence. Something akin to Electronic Voice Phenomenon. It's all these algorithms could (again, theoretically) do. These algorithms can't feel the sorrow or the desire like I do, can't feel pain or ecstasies like I do, can't wish their own ego annihilation like I do.So whenever I post my art stemmed from actual, spiritual experiences (gnosis and channelling), I'm trying to transmit my humanly-limited attempt on translating a languageless, intangible signified, into a signifier, be it a text, a drawing or (as I've been doing lately) a 3D scene. And I'm trying to transmit it so it hopefully gets to someone else who has had similar experiences, someone who hopefully looks at my art and says "oh, so She got to him too, I'm not alone in Her Nest". Whenever I post my art, it longs for "the other side" (socially, spiritually and metaphorically).Similarly, whenever I consume art, I can feel when it's transmitting, especially when said art is an attempt on translating the same essence I've been spiritually being faced by. I can look at some picture with an owl or a supernatural woman, look at the depicted eyes and feel like "oh... this picture is an actual depiction of Her". And this is where things become funny: I lost count on how many AI-generated pictures managed to convey the exact sensation, partly because their training data is a amalgamation of egregores, egregores on which tulpas manifest out of the collective unconsciousness, also egregores on which real daemonic entities also gather. Clankers will never be able to get the unexpected presence of Lilith at 3AM, but these algorithms can, to a certain extent, reproduce the same linguistic medium, full with its imbued energetic signatures, from real living beings (humans and whatnot) who do. Obviously, it's an imperfect simulacrum, a mashup devoid of actual spiritual capabilities, and it's not as deep as that coming from someone (or some other living being) who actually did witness theophanies.In the end of the day, no person is an island, especially when it comes to metaphysics, from which a plethora of artistic expressions stemmed.!unpopularopinion@lemmy.world