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Metaphysics of The Machines

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In the artwork Syntropic Counterpoints: Metaphysics of The Machines, we explore the phenomena of AI aesthetic and challenge machine abstraction with the eternal question about philosophical topics such as moral, ethics, human existence, God, evil, war. We are making Philosophers AI Clones and giving them words and grammar as a creative tool to make worlds “beyond” the world, existing and non-existing realities, like humans, do. In our conceptual approach, we are led by Nietzsche claim that grammar is the “Metaphysics of the People”. Accordingly, grammar, content, and vision generated during the philosophical discussion between our AI clones are "Metaphysics of Machines". As a result, we can experience machine realities and absurdity and start to question our own.

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      1. AI Abstraction
      2. AI Aesthetic
      3. AI story generation
      4. Creative Medium
      5. Human-Robot-Robot interaction
      6. Natural language processing
      7. Robot creativity

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