DNA-based prediction of Nietzsche’s voice

The result is presented in audio format and illustrates the first attempt at simulating the voice of a deceased person.
download PDF | full study Abstract This paper presents a protocol for the accurate prediction of an individual’s voice based on genotype data, specifically from single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). We collected trace amounts of cellular material (Touch DNA) from books that belonged to the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). DNA was extracted and amplified using DOP-PCR technique. Five different genomic DNAs were generated. Nietzsche’s genotype was singled out after comparison to genotype data from one living relative of the Nietzsche family. Nietzsche’s genotype data was analyzed using a DNA-based phenotyping assay, termed VoiceRator, that incorporates the 24 most informative voice SNPs based on their association with genes related to the phenotypic expression of the vocal tract and larynx structure and function. An SNP-based voice profile of Nietzsche was inferred. The profile data was converted into bio-measures that were used to 3D-print… Read More...

The Berkley Horse

If all there was was hate, why did I look to it for love?
“The use of the word 'Horse' (as in 'Her horse was named Death') is banned since 2009 subsequent to an edict issued by the Grand Stereo Hell Society for Discipline which directed that the word 'Hole' and its equivalent in other languages be used instead.” (The Berkley Hole, From its Palatial Beginnings to S-35, University of Illinois Press, 2011) Patient is seen 6 months later for a return visit. Patient claims he hears voices talking to each other about his feelings and past actions. Others, a vague “they,” are “robbing me of my thoughts.” Dr. Mipstein: Let’s fast forward things that we might normally take our time with and talk about the facilities. What I’d like to do is run through a few questions we have briefly raised last time, and try to go over these exact same questions more… Read More...

Everything resembles the truth

But now that the past itself has been persuaded of its own ambiguity, as if nothing had happened, what is left to be exposed?
                                                (Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls, 1842) The following report is reproduced as received.        : S-50 appears to offer: concern for the individual. Recruitment, training techniques, and indoctrination procedures practiced by S-50 impose their norms of thinking and behaving through: “care”; breakdown of spontaneity; ?composite schemes of cross-non-actions and repetitive non-stimuli configured by experiments; closed system of logic; comprehension-altering routines leading to flashbacks and intrusive reexperiencing of negative emotions, cone-shaped memories, shizoaffective memories, phantom recollections, semi-rigid declarative memories swapped with pliant ones; ?response to sadness in a way that greater sadness is aroused; ?rationalization to incite to accept the “care” provided by S-50 as the only alternative. Recruits suffered loss of direction, lack of orientation,… Read More...

New lows

We observed a calm expert of all things unjust and inevitable, whose principal occupation was to confiscate the forces of nuance and to derive, from this larceny, pride and grandeur.
now 29 almost 30, my life is clearly moving into more boring crap. in der mann ohne eigenschaften, musil wrote that we have more chance to hear about something extraordinary in the news than to actually live it. it’s in the abstraction that the essential of our life is happening, whereas minor, banal—yet paradoxically sometimes significant—events occupy our real life (e.g., death). “the news” [which today include social media] added an asomatous layer of extraordinariness to life that revealed itself capable of dulling real life at once. overall, does it generate more boredom, or more excitement? (also: the frontier between abstraction and real life happens to be episodically porous, when abstraction meets reality, when i come across that wraith in person for the first time after i imagined it dozens of times from pictures or rumors. the eiffel tower, a… Read More...

Reserection

don't tell me you gonna crush something else and when you done you make me look like an ass
going to the jurgen teller opening tonight with aloha and steve. i think juergen teller should have stopped photography in 1996. it would have saved us from seeing his dick. so the opening was fun. here i was again, sessile and blonde in a same gallery. filled with funny fashion people like helmut lang and the nyt fashion editor and german sausages given away at the door under a yellow umbrella. obviously juergen teller works for marc jacobs. and went to ukraine. i saw one beckham pic, a face portrait, and she looked like a pig with orange skin. there was a lot of photographers attending. i thought, the population of photographers is growing so fast in nyc. like deejays, artists, curators. it's not competition, it’s a holocaust. air. everybody does everything and pretends to care. over and over. it's… Read More...

Die progressive Paralyse

There was a sentiment, a mood, that a good simulation was a reiterated simulation. But when S-22 had the occasion to prove the people at S-75 they were wrong about this sentiment, it just didn’t work.
S-22 was a rote-building structure located on 1st Place in Carroll Gardens. It was a control station, the first ever based on a “control and duplicate” design. Multiple systems of non-dialectic, non-syllogistic spontaneous recurrence backed up by twin systems installed throughout the facility were operated by two paired control rooms, Block Sigma and Block Zeta [often used as a metonym for S-22], and linked via looped passages and revolving couriers. The principal components and functions of the systems included: — Annihilators; — Daisy-chained precipitating stressors; — Actuators to dishevel arcs of time and to feign substance; — Iteration systems to keep the simulations dual. The facility was operating under the guidelines of S-28 [a structure in many respects sympathetic to the underwhelming theories of metaness that were de rigueur at S-75], under the sanctimonious supervision of a man identified only… Read More...

and that alone is love, that which never becomes something else

every case is a case of love.
we landed in LA after a 6 hour flight. a friend of aloha’s at the baggage claim who was on our flight, that she didn’t see, appeared wearing a big pair of black sunglasses to hide her big dilated pupils with her head covered in a black jacket hood, whose name was hayley. i slept 3 hours last night the dome-shaped brain muscle. the diane airbus seat 12A, it desiccated my fluids. she was so happy to see aloha omahgah. she offered for us to stay in LA and have dinner and sleep over at her place. i called my parents to tell them about the new plan. we picked up our car at the budget lot, we drove to hayley’s apartment, it was on mccarthy drive, near wilshire boulevard. hayley works at universal music, always has gossips, walked us… Read More...

Have you read Stendhal?

Our misfortunes, Doctor, they come from wrong ideas we have about what happens to us.
The experiments conducted at S-76 were designed to identify methods to discern truth from falsehood. They involved the use of people without their knowledge, psychotropics, and literature. The subjects were referred to as books. They were wearing gag bits. They were taught to enjoy confinement and reverse chronological order. The criteria of truth were: 1) the power to follow many paths simultaneously; 2) pliancy (words and fabricated sensations were transformed into first impressions with the ability to alter judgement, taste, and behavior); 3) accumulation (until it reached a limit where the “truth,” in the form of knowledge fragments, became detrimental to stereohell as a whole, which set an upper limit on the size stereohell could reach); 4) an ensemble of laws [the Facilities?]; 5) a second ensemble of laws enclosing the whole system [possibly stereohell itself]; 6) differences and repetitions.… Read More...

The questioning of experience and the images of the Same

If two simulations are different from each other, they still are one same simulation.
In 2009, an important experiment dubbed Tria-S took place at S-77, a facility built at the immediate vicinity of the Judge's Room and supervised by ?????? (until [his] death in 2011). A research team led by ??????? performed several reality tests, and their results turned out to prove that the phenomenon studied was not a simulation. ??????? and [her] team discovered that, under certain circumstances, circular simulations were replicable regardless of the distance separating them from their source. Furthermore, each simulation always seemed to be what the other was as if the two were one. Their movements were perfectly synchronized. Their speeds were matching. The only differences, random and rare, were negligible (torsions, radiometric variations, elasticity of the sides). ??????? and her team proposed the theory that, despite their multiplicity, the simulations were one single gigantic simulation. To understand what… Read More...

personal crusade against alzheimer’s

yeah what happened after midnight?
my 2008/2009 new year’s evening was supposed to start in front of chiquita’s building on 22nd st at 10pm. steve picked me up around 945 but somehow he thought it was a good idea to change the plan and to pay a visit to mario in williamsburg first. 'just one hour. fuckin A sis.' so the new plan was to go there and 'socialize' then head back to manhattan, triumphant and loaded. mario was nice and told me 'darling your hair is sooooo determined' ten times, because mario is a hair stylist on ecstasy. we kissed goodbye at 1105 and were on metropolitan ave at 1110 already high on 2 keys waiting for the car. 1110 and no car. steve called every 5 mins. the car was on the way. took 50 mins to show up. now we were in… Read More...

This, too, is for the best

We know that there is always a beginning.
Everything I am talking about is represented, one way or another, already in previous literature. What I am talking about is why I was interested in S-75 [the texts, theories, activities]. I want to emphasize that what I really got out of this is a sense that nothing I was doing defended my interests very much. I was acting against my hopes. I couldn't distance myself from the story I believed was true. We know that there is always a beginning. What I found is that ?????????, the instigator(s), if you will, ran several actions and produced several interpretations of these actions, and that they have been in this "business" for at least [6] years [in relative unawareness], as uncertain as it may sound. In fact they were acting in broad daylight. They were coordinating the operations. It was their… Read More...

Body, face, desire

The female desire was visible, while the male one was concealed
Concealed female external genitals: Possible morpho-psychological clue to unique emotional and cognitive evolutionary matrix of man Medical Science Monitor, 2006, Vol. 12, No. 5 Inaccessible and concealed external female genitals are one of the morphological characteristics distinguishing humans from other higher primates. External female sexual organs in subhuman primates are visible and accessible in the habitual quadrupedal and occasional bipedal posture, whereas these organs in the human female are inaccessible and concealed in any posture. A prospective consequence of gradual bipedalism of hominids during evolution was a shifting of the external female genitals in an anterior direction. In the completely bipedal Homo sapiens, this resulted in the vulvo-cryptic phenomenon, i.e. concealed female genitals in humans. The unique morphology of the human female pelvis served as an obstacle to easy access of the male in the process of copulation, necessitating the female’s conscious decision… Read More...

in the Name of INJUSTICE

The spelling was acted. The wording did not match normal Kerrean forms. The theme was uniform.
MM: Do you hear voices? JB: I used to. MM: Were they friendly or hostile? JB: I don't know. MM: Do you still hear voices? JB: No. MM: How old are you? JB: I'm one hundred thousand years old. MM: You don't look like someone who's one hundred thousand years old. JB: Yes but it repeats itself in my head. MM: What do you mean? JB: It repeats itself, the years. MM: And what did you do in your life? JB: I was a pilot. I punched Reagan on TV. MM: Really? When was that? JB: I don't know, I don't remember. MM: I don't remember either. JB: I was a pilot. I've been an archaeologist. An astronaut. MM: And today, what's your job today? JB: I'm retired. MM: You're retired? JB: Yes. MM: Is it the first time you… Read More...

What part of NO don’t you understand?

The book of shadows. They live in shadows.
????????? did not believe ????????? actually ????????? in the manner ????????? described. The people who knew? Absolute bores. Book of shadows. And their morticians, and their assistants, and their perpetual faux-cool pauses and faux-in-control pauses. ????????? compared the Judge’s Room to a shame. She compared the ????????? (20009-Present) to a shame and the method of ????????? to the Rocks, the Rockaways, the Wandering Rocks, mussels on rocks, Kierkegaard, and the darkest pages of Flaubert’s correspondence. She amassed every moment, every impression, every absence, created a sort of history, and investigated this history, isolated (identified) the positions of dominance, and wrote a report where it was revealed that ????????? ‘s fabricated sensations, lapses of memory, inventions, and the words she never pronounced had been stored, amalgamated, and disgorged as smirks, hums, spells (hummed), laconic judgements, distastes (that would, in return, cause… Read More...