About Stable Diffusion Dream Machine (Image Generation AI)-27
手塚治虫の『火の鳥・未来編』でウーピーのタマミが主人公に見せる想像の景色。ＡＩが作り出す束の間の幻想世界。『夢の果てまでも』で描かれた夢映像中毒となってしまう人物。ありきたりだが、精神破綻の狂気すれすれに美が潜むことも確かにあるらしい。
唐突だが、ここで人間の脳の三重構造について考えてしまう。モデルデータ配布サイトなどでstable diffusionによる画像を見ていると、人間の本能を司るといわれる脳幹、爬虫類脳と呼ばれる最古の生存根源的な部分が、無意識を露わにする如く、凶暴かつ露骨に現れ出ているように思うことがある。
生存に不可欠な剥き出しの欲望、恐怖、暴力、性、生死、血、無意識。気取りようもなく、上品でもない野蛮で強烈な部分だが、これらを司る無意識的な脳幹・大脳辺縁系と、理性・思考・言葉を司る意識的な大脳新皮質が上手いこと統一され、画像表現となるとき、そこに乱調と均整を超えた、見事な美が現れるのかもしれない。
The imaginary landscape shown to the protagonist by Tamami the Whoopi in Osamu Tezuka’s “Phoenix: A Tale of the Future”.The fleeting fantasy world created by AI. The character who becomes addicted to dream images in “‘Until the End of the World’”. It may sound cliched, but it is true that beauty can be found just below the edge of insanity in mental breakdown.
Suddenly, I am thinking about the threefold structure of the human brain. When I look at stable diffusion images on model data distribution sites, I sometimes think that the brainstem, which is said to control human instincts, and the oldest fundamental part of the brain for survival, called the reptilian brain, appear in a ferocious and blatant manner, as if revealing the unconsciousness of the brain.
The bare desires, fears, violence, sex, life and death, blood, and unconsciousness that are essential for survival.When the unconscious brainstem and limbic system, which governs these aspects, and the conscious neocortex, which governs reason, thought, and language, are successfully unified and expressed in images, a stunning beauty may emerge that transcends disorder and uniformity.