PANSPERMIA
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A project about cosmic life

"Pan": "all", "Sperma": "seed". Panspermia as theory that life exists throughout the universe. Either life particles dusts were carried by meteorites, comets, or our spaceships, the unstoppable force of life are always permeating into unthinkable places.

Often when star gazing these days, one also gaze into the “future”, a future Space X has envisioned for our earthlings - human habitat on Mars, or eventually becoming multi-planetary civilization. One can not help wondering what astro/cosmic life form could be when one day we are really out there “encountering” and perhaps“co-living” with. And even if we ever encounter such life forms “face to face”, are we able to recognize it? Specially when their levels of existences beyond phenomenon realm?

These life forms are generated with self trained machine learning models - StyleGAN2. by working with the machine’s “mind” - “the latent space” - a multi dimensional mathematical space where semantic vectors of what’s “learnt” are registered and stored. - for lack of better metaphor, it’s like deep diving into cosmos’ primordial soup, where abundance of life forms are found with constant startlements.

The endless variations of something “likeness”, something“could be”, something “bizarre and freaky”, something “completely unrecognizable” are all tucked away in nooks and cranks of the machines’ sub-consciousness, like millions of neurons who are in constant fluctuation and waiting for some clearer emergences. After experimenting with it I find the vast riches of probabilities and possibilities easily overload human perceptive faculties and collapse our categorical way of thinking. I wonder: does universe “creates” in the similar way? Or does universe “thinks" in this way? Or do androids “dream” in this way?

What I encountered in “latent space walk” has showered me how mother nature has always shown to me: strangest life form spurs, emerges, crossbreeds, evolves, mutates and trespasses “domain”, “kingdom”, “phylum”, “class”, “order”, “family”, “genus”, species boundaries in constant motion as if they following strange “selfless”, “non- differentiated” “collaborative” code or protocol at very fundamental level at beginning of genesis. what's regard as "alien","xeno","astrobiologial" only reflects our anthropocentric limitation of sense making.

No matter how exotic, bizarre, eccentric, even appear so deformed that un-recognizable to the common eyes, in Buddha’s gaze all life forms are inherited with illuminating seeds within, which are sentient resonances of the whole.

NFT art project website is launch soon:
https://panspermia.life