Almost unhuman HAOS - Project Unlock Electrical Perception

似人非人_HAOS - 人類知覺解放計畫

Almost unhuman_HAOS - Project Unlock Electrical Perception

「人必須是人？」
此計畫「似人非人_HAOS人類知覺解放計畫 」結合人機互動、電控工程、工業材料設計、影像表演和神經科學領域，挑戰佛學八識所定義的人類本質，除了視覺、聽覺、嗅覺、觸覺、味覺之外，將電覺在口腔這個非植入卻侵入我們體內的地帶，對人類的生物身份進行擴張，並將人類認知增強視為一種知覺雕塑藝術，雕塑觀眾的大腦認知，做電覺雕塑的藝術。

此創作將探究電知覺藝術的世界，除了從「人必須是人」開始提問 – 反抗人和植入式科技融為一體的宿命，並更近一步地去思考器官、知覺、美學、文化之間的架構。在創作中應用賴俊廷開發的舌板電擊起電器這種「複合運作的感官代替技術」，用電覺刺激器（actuator）整合觀眾和AI，短時間內啟動舌頭視力和觸覺等非典器官的感官附加經驗 — 用「人類增強器官HAOS」直接和世界連結，並雕塑觀眾的電覺認知，建構電覺認知的世界。讓舌頭和皮膚成為一種新的藝術認知接收形式，展示植入式科技以外的一種人類和AI緊密整合的方式。

展覽邀請體驗者成為賽博格（非強制性、非植入），分階段訓練，塑造認知增強，實現跨越物種界線成為超人類，批判植入式科技和人造進化，從東方哲思強調認知的擴張才是「超越人類的道路」，反動西方用分類學、微電子政治學出發的賽博格觀點，展示人如何不必是人。

人必須是人 – 功能異變的似人非人

在表演中讓觀眾用電覺意識AI提供的線索，用這種認知增強的方法，辨別原本身為人無法察覺的訊息，「超越人類、似人非人的我們」挑戰「超越真實、似人非人的對抗神經網＿DeepFake」。用超人類對上擬相超真實，揭示人類大腦作為預測機器的徒勞凸顯人類生物性的本質，進行激問：「若我們和科技整合，成為賽博格，我們就不算是人了嗎？」，論述「人必須是人？」提出「人必須是人」的見解，既然我們已經作為人誕生在這世界上了，人必須是人。

“Does a human have to be human?” 
Almost unhuman HAOS - Project Unlock Electrical Perception Ver1.0 combines the fields of  human-machine interaction, electrical engineering, industrial and material design, visual performance arts, and neuroscience, to attempt using electrical sensing in the oral region as an addition to the Eight Consciousness defined by Buddhist disciplines (sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, etc.) and expanding beyond the biological identity of a human. It views the refinement of human cognition as a form of art, sculpting the way the audience perceive the brain with the art of electrical sensing.

This piece will explore the world of electrical sensory art not only questioning if “a human has to be human?” (against the destiny in which human and machine is integrated), but also investigate the structure between organ, cognition, aesthetics, and culture. Using the device developed by Lai Jiun Ting, “compound sensory substitution technology” integrates the human audience and AI through an actuator, activating “electrical  vision”, and other non-conventional compound sensory experience using “human sensory enhancer HAOS”, connecting to the world, and sculpting the way the audience perceive electrical sensing. By combining the sensing of the tongue and skin, this implant shows a close connection between AI and humans.

This exhibition invites the audience to become cyborgs (non-invasive, non-implant) by training in steps and enhancing cognition, transcending biological boundaries to the level of superhuman. In Eastern philosophy, expanding the human consciousness is the path to “exceed human”, in contrast to the western “cyborg” view, showing that humans don’t have to be human to be human.

In the performance, audience will use the clues provided byelectrical sensing to detect the information that was previously incomprehensible by humans. “Exceeding human, us human-like non-human” challenges “exceeding reality, human-like non-human deepfake”. Using superhuman and super-realistic imagery, it reveals the essence of a biological human with the contrast of the human brain as a computer, which begs the question “If we are combined with technology, becoming cyborgs, are we not human anymore?”. In conclusion, as long as we were born as human, we must be human.

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