Ghost
The posthuman era has inevitably arrived. When everything can be artificially created, has the meaning of human existence in this world already changed? Human existence precedes essence; it is our self-will, formed by experience and memory, that defines who we are. Stripped of the physical body, this will becomes our ghost.This AI-generated film imagines a future world in which memory and consciousness can technologically constructed. I hope to explore and discuss with the audience: In such a world, how should we reevaluate the meaning of our existence when we live under artificial lies? When our authentic memories are lost and everything is fabricated—who are we? And what is the purpose of our subjective agency? Perhaps the answer is not what matters. As Braidotti said: “We need to address these contradictions not only intellectually, but also affectively and to do so in an affirmative manner. Despair is not a project; affirmation is.”
“All cognition is embodied, which is to say that for humans, it exists throughout the body, not only in the neocortex.” The influence of the society of the spectacle has extended beyond our external world to our very selves. When we are implanted with false memories, we no longer possess our own ghosts. What remains is merely an empty shell. At that point, we are no different from artificial creations.