AI-generated loop videos with soundscape – Stable Diffusion, ControlNet, AnimateDiff – January 2024
I vividly remember my first thunderstorm as a child. It was late afternoon at our home, nestled in the middle of farmland. The air hung heavy, oppressive. My grandparents stood quietly, gazing at the horizon.
Distant flashes of lightning began to streak across the sky. Every creature fell silent. All waited for deliverance.
I was captivated. Afraid—yet strangely drawn to it. I yearned for the storm to come closer. When the cracks of thunder finally reached us, their ferocity sent shivers down my spine. A few raindrops fell, and with them came a profound sense of release.
I couldn’t have known, back then, that this ebb and flow between tension and release would become one of the great themes of adulthood: frustration and pleasure fueling the restlessness of the world.
Perhaps they reveal a deeper truth—that it is in the midst of turbulence we feel most alive.
Could it have been during a thunderstorm that we first glimpsed our own existence?
Just as diffusion models generate images by denoising pure randomness, could consciousness have emerged from chaos?