“There are a growing number of theories that revolve around the machine's relation to the unconscious thus opening doors to discourses on the psychoanalysis of virtual worlds, multiverses, algorithms, and artificial intelligence itself. However, one often forgets the hidden lineage of the psyche that resides within hypnosis. This obscure paranormal domain of inquiry -which consists of experiments with ideas of positive and negative hallucinations, magnetism, mesmeric seizures, suggestion, telepathy, telekinesis, intuition, identity-switching, ideomotor reflexes, and "communities of sensation"- is also strangely the resurrected yet hidden promise behind many technologies of the future. Nevertheless, my presentation will explore the lost component of this connection between hypnotic methodologies and machinic devices: namely, a unique relation to "the black" (i.e. to darkness, silence, and the nothing), like that of the sensory deprivation chamber, which always formed such atmospheres of persuasion and entrancement in the past. The question therefore arises: Can the machine master black thought/space in order to summon extraordinary powers found only in blindness?” Jason mohaghegh from 2022 incredible machines conference