Perspective

I have been getting a lot of questions lately regarding the UFO/Alien phenomena and I think it’s time to do a show about perspective, and the importance of keeping an open mind with regard to these topics.  Each of these 4 segments will take a different approach to keeping things in perspectives.  

Some people will say to me, They’ll say “they have an open mind” because they think that some of the lights in the sky MIGHT be a UFO.

Ok…But an open mind MEANS that you ALSO think that they MIGHT BE something else, something more terrestrial.  I think it’s important to remember that.   Like with anything, You have to wait until you have more knowledge and perhaps a different reference point before making these determinations.

It’s My opinion that the VAST majority, like 99%, of these “sightings” do in fact have a terrestrial explanation.  We have all seen strange things in the sky, we have all see tricks of the light, or something we saw that we couldn’t immediately identify.  That doesn’t mean the only explanation is alien.

I think SOME sightings are actually anomalous and definitely require more scientific investigation, as well as speculation from the observers.  As they very well MIGHT be seeing something else entirely.  There’s too many experienced observers who have witnessed such sightings.

Sometimes, just by us physically moving, things come into focus and we realize exactly what we are looking at. Sometimes you look up and wonder What the heck is that? And then suddenly these “Lights” in the sky turn and you realize it was just a cluster of birds.

Sometimes, just by us physically moving, things come into focus and we realize exactly what we are looking at.  

Like when you see a 3D SIGN that is designed to spell out a name, but ONLY when you are standing in the correct position viewing it from the correct angle. If you are off-angle it just looks like a mess. But when you are in the correct position, and your PERSPECTIVE is correct, then that sign can be read clearly.

Perspective is the important factor here.  Sometimes our perspective changes because we physically move, like in the 3D sign example. Sometimes our perspective changes because TIME has passed and we can look at something from a New perspective. What was scary at age nine, may not be scary and may even seem silly at age 15.   Things in life that were important to us at 20 might not be so important to us, at 40.

Groucho Marx was hugely popular and considered hilarious in the early 20^th century. But it doesn’t land the same to today’s audience who look at it from a different perspective.

Another way our perspective can change is Technology and the Knowledge gained from that technology.

There is this notion you have probably heard from the 1700’s called the invisible ships phenomenon. It states that when the new explorers came from Europe to the America’s the indigenous people didn’t even see the ships coming, because they didn’t know what SHIPS were, so they had no reference or perspective TO know what they were looking at, so they couldn’t even see the ships. That’s the perception the Europeans had based on the reactions of the natives.

It does illustrate the point that we ALL operate from our own paradigms and world view.  

We know the culmination of what we have learned and experienced, and deal with on a daily basis.

I think most of us would be scared, or at least very startled if we saw a ladybug that was 10 inches long; That’s outside of our belief system of what we know a ladybug SHOULD be.

That’s one way to look at things. Another way is that we DON’T KNOW WHAT WE DON’T KNOW. It’s hard to think of things this way.

Put yet another way, there is well known quote from Arthur C. Clark that says “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” That’s because it’s more advanced and we don’t yet understand it.

Let’s imagine you could time travel back to 1875, keeping in mind that THAT is only 150 years ago, NOT 10,000 years ago, but a mere 150 years ago. A VERY short amount of time in the grand scheme of things, considering Modern Humans have been around for at least 160,000 years.

So you go up to the world’s leading scientists of 1875 and show them your cell phone and say you could talk to ANY human being on the planet on this little device. INSTANTLY their minds would be blown. They would probably have a hard time even grasping the idea of this.  They have never even spoke on the telephone with ANYONE, let alone across the globe, let alone on a screen face to face, let alone in the palm of your hand.

They have absolutely no point of reference as to what you have.   Then you show them that you could also look up ANYTHING you wanted to right in the palm of your hand ON THE SAME DEVICE. This would certainly be earth shattering to them. Like the stories we have heard of Native people seeing a picture of themselves for the first time.

This can actually also work in reverse: A fun Youtube search is to watch young kids looking at a LANDLINE phone – the old, corded, rotary style phones that were around even in the 80’s. They literally do not even have ANY idea how to operate it.

Which brings me to another notion regarding perspective: That is, we can be VERY close to something, and yet so VERY FAR AWAY. It may be JUST out of reach. We MAY in fact be very close to hearing a message from another civilization, or even seeing another life form, but we might be just off in our ability to detect them.

You only have to be off by a tiny fraction, and something may be utterly useless.  Like that rotary phone …IF you were trapped and ONLY had an old rotary phone to call for help…..IF you don’t know how to use it, you are out of luck`. You’d be so close to being able to call for help.… yet you’d be unable to do so.

Reminds me of the Gold RECORD that we sent into space on the voyage probe back in 1977.  Which is STILL traveling through space by the way (and is about 15 BILLION Miles from earth and still sending data). This gold disc was filled with music and sounds and images of earth for another alien civilization to find. This is a fantastic idea. 

Of course, if anyone from another civilization did find this-  they too would have to have a record player and KNOW how to access those sounds. Let’s say they are smart enough to realize they need a record player or for some reason they DO have a record player…They would then HAVE to KNOW what speed to play the record at… this TINY distinction could give them an entirely different idea of what we were TRYING to communicate. Without that specific technology, used in PRECISELY the correct way… they wouldn’t be able to access it correctly.  So close, yet so far away.

That’s the problem.  In today’s terms we’ve all been there, where we want to charge our phone or other device, and there’s a charger right there, but it doesn’t fit our exact device model and therefore we can’t charge up. So close, but still so far away. Just by not having the exact adapter to fit our device – a charger is useless to us.

Like the SETI program: THE SEARCH FOR EXTRA TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE. This is a great idea, too.  It’s the telescope array that listens for radio frequencies from space.  AWESOME! However, this, too, ONLY works if there’s another civilization using RADIO SIGNALS – AND using the exact same radio frequency technology range that we are LISTENING FOR.

ANOTHER way to think of this PERSPECTIVE is that you could literally live right next door to a radio station.. You look out your window and there is a Giant antenna broadcasting all sorts of fascinating information.  IF you do not have a receiver.. you can’t hear it – and it’s right next door.

Worse than that: Let’s say you DO have a receiver, and it’s right there, but you are off ONE millimeter when tuning it in, so you STILL CAN’T dial in the station.  Or maybe you don’t know how to dial it in correctly like with the example of the rotary phone… you know how to make a call, but DON’T know how to make a call on that type of phone.

Pondering these examples shows us how close we MIGHT be to making contact with another civilization, but we may not fully see them, hear them, or realize their presence, because we DON’T understand HOW TO.

You can imagine how close we MIGHT be to understanding another civilizations messages… we MAY just be off station by ONE millimeter.

I think it is imperative that we KEEP an open mind with regards to this, as perhaps, as our technology expands, we WILL IN FACT one day be able to see/hear or understand another civilizations messages or presence. 

When we come back we will talk more about how Technology and knowledge is continuously changing our perspectives. Technology, Knowledge, and our perspective is CONSTANTLY changing and opening new avenues of discovery.

Microscopic organisms were discovered in the late 17th century. Before that, the notion of little tiny living organisms being everywhere surely would have been thought of as crazy. It wasn’t until into the 1880’s, AFTER the telephone was invented, that we discovered The first scientific evidence that microorganisms are even part of the normal human system.

The infrared spectrum camera was invented around 1910, and allowed us to see into the infrared spectrum of light which sees beyond what our eyes can see.

In 1957 French scientist Vladimir Gavreau first began researching infrasound machines that can hear well beyond that of the Human ear.

There are of course countless other examples of this idea.of how technology has allowed us to see something that HAS EXISTED THE ENTIRE TIME…But it was JUST out of reach of our perception, because we didn’t have the ability to detect it.

Throughout history, There have often been severe criticisms of anyone challenging the existing position or norm.  It’s a pattern that is repeated over and over and over and it seems maddening to me that we haven’t grown MORE open minded as we have seen this happening continuously throughout history.

This has spanned across religion and science for as long as they have existed.  To this day it still goes on, and often those who challenge accepted archeological discoveries are shunned or excluded for even having those ideas.

In an oversimplification to illustrate THE point. It’s the notion that Many ancient cultures subscribed to a flat-Earth cosmography.  Then we realized the earth was, in fact, round.

These ideas are often later established, and become the NEW norm as our knowledge evolves.  Which just shows we ALL NEED TO BE MUCH MORE open minded with ALL of these ideas..  Resisting these new ideas so voraciously seems foolish, as oftentimes these ideas eventually become proven correct as we gain more knowledge, often through technological advancements. 

I believe many of the things we currently view as unknowns.. will become apparent to us as we gain more technology, and thus more knowledge.

It feels wrong to be so dismissive of ideas that challenge the currently held paradigm, as perhaps it’s just a matter of not having the right perspective, or technological know-how. Don’t just dismiss something out of hand because it doesn’t line up with YOUR CURRENT world view – which will one day most certainly be an archaic paradigm.

It’s always about Relative Perspective; We MAY very well be wrong in our assumptions about Many of these ideas and discoveries.

Perhaps the ancient crystal skulls ARE in fact storage devices that hold information about the earth or the universe.. but we just don’t know how to access it.  We MAY be so close, and yet so far.

Like when people dismiss the notion of an extraterrestrial civilization visiting earth.  They are speaking from THEIR paradigm, using THEIR current technology.  

They will often say. “You can’t get here from there.”

What they REALLY mean to say is “You can’t get there from here…USING THE TECHNOLOGY THAT WE HAVE TODAY, because THAT would take over 10,000 years.”

The nearest star is 4.2 light years away. A light-year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year….which is about 6 Trillion miles for those keeping track.  SO, IF we could travel near light speed we could do it in 4 years. With todays Current technology, we can travel about 37,000 miles per hour, so it would take us tens of thousands of years to make that journey.

Obviously we could develop faster and faster ways to traverse space, of which several are being developed right now.  We could perhaps even develop an entirely new way to move about the universe, or perhaps even inter-dimensionally.  There’s speculation we could even fold space and thus cover vast distances in short amounts of time using what some have called wormholes… as just one example. 

In the 15^th century you can easily Imagine Europeans saying exactly that about the new world of North America.  That “You can’t get there from here.”   

Of course many didn’t even believe there WAS a here to come to – simply because they hadn’t yet had the technology to know better.

BUT of course when we DID discover the new world it would take a MINIMUM of 2-4 months, depending on the weather, to make that trip – JUST ONE WAY. For reference That’s about 1,400 -2,800 hours…. QUITE a journey.

Let’s again imagine we could travel back to 1825, JUST 200 years ago. This is BEFORE we had steamship technology, or even morse code.  So travel, and communication, was what we today would consider painfully slow.

Then, we developed, through technology, better ships and even planes. Today boats can go from New York to London in 135 hours instead of the 2,800 hours it USED to take. I’ll bet 200 years from now THAT 135 hour number will seem PAINFULLY SLOW.

We now of course even have planes, a yet to be imagined technology they didn’t have in 1825. And the concord plane can make the trip from NY to London in UNDER 3 HOURS. 

So something that just 200 years ago would take, 2800 hours….. now takes under 3. We’re talking about 1/1,000th of the time… I can certainly imagine people in 1825 saying there’s NO WAY you can get there in anything close to that time – It’s simply impossible from their worldview. From the state of technology at the time.  

So we HAVE to be open minded and we HAVE remember we are using OUR CURRENT STATE of technology as our point of reference.  Many of these “unknowns” of today will surely be within our scope of understanding in the future.

In 1900, NOT THAT LONG AGO AT ALL, the famed British physicist Lord Kelvin stated: “Now, there is nothing new to discover in physics. WHAT only remains is to be measured more and more precisely”

WOW… Holy Hubris.  What an example of us being egotistically locked into OUR OWN CURRENT point of reference. Only – these analogies are to illustrate the point that things change.  These comparisons to our technology or knowledge base are from Just 150-200 years ago.  This also illustrates how fast, and drastic, our views, our technology, and our knowledge and understanding can change in a very short time.  

And now, we are just beginning with another NEW revolution, that of Artificial Intelligence. Already we can see how technological growth is happening exponentially. One can easily imagine if another civilization created Artificial Intelligence, as seems inevitable, how fast their technology could evolve. Not only have they most likely had a huge jump in linear time on us, but depending when they developed things like A.I., (or perhaps something even better, yet unknown to us) you can only imagine how fast their technological growth would be. A civilization reaching OUR CURRENT level just 1,000 years earlier than we have, and you can imagine how far ahead they would be technologically.  And they have had of course, potentially, 9 billion more years to develop as well.

Keeping in mind that the accepted age of the universe is 13.7 BILLION years old.

And the accepted age of the earth is just 4.5 BILLION years old. It seems very reasonable to assume that another intelligent civilization in the universe could be over 9 BILLION years ahead of us in technological development.  Given what we have learned in JUST the last 200 years, you can imagine that a civilization wouldn’t need to be 9 BILLION years ahead of us technologically, but a mere 9 million years, or even just 9,000 years could mean such a vastly different understanding of the universe that it would easily be incomprehensible to us from our current perspective to understand. 

When you consider what a Profoundly rapid change AI is making in our understanding of the world and universe, you can easily extrapolate that out to a civilization that is 1,000 – 10,000 years ahead of us and you can imagine how even a slight jump on us technologically would put them Vastly ahead of us.  Faced with an advanced society w/ higher technology we may not even be able to grasp the fanciful notions they have mastered.

We just saw how a 200 year advantage that we have over those in 1825, and how DRASTICALLY our understanding of the universe and the human experience is.  And that’s the same species, in the same location, on the same planet… just simply looking at the world from a 200 year difference in perspective.

When we return, next we will look at how every major advance in science, shattered a previous belief that was CERTAIN and everyone accepted as factual. These new discoveries were often criticized or dismissed entirely until – through technology – we were able to gain the knowledge to prove them.

When you sit back and take a look at it: Nearly every major advance in science shattered a previously held belief that was believed to be a certainty and everyone accepted as factual. I’d like to run through a series of examples for perspective:

Going back to 2500 BC the Egyptians thought that the Sun God Ra carried the Sun across the sky in the daytime, and then brought it back through a tunnel under the Earth at night.

This is literally COMICAL today.  A 9 year old would laugh at this notion.

In 500 BC  The Greeks 1st worked out that the earth wasn’t flat —going against the common belief that it was flat.2,000 years later In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus figured out that the Earth revolved around the sun at a time when nobody knew that the stars were even other suns. HE DID THIS ONLY USING THE NAKED EYE – without technology.  

15 years later in 1519 The Magellan-Elcano expedition was the first to provide practical proof that the earth was actually round.

In the year 1600, Giordano Bruno was burned alive at the stake and his ashes were thrown into the Tiber river.  This was for several reasons including that he proposed that the stars were distant suns surrounded by their own planets (what we today call exoplanets), and he raised the possibility that these planets might foster life of their own. Bruno was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition on charges of denial of several core Catholic doctrines.

He also believed in pantheism (meaning he regarded the universe as a manifestation of God) 

AND he believed in the reincarnation of the soul. It was only AFTER his death, that he gained considerable fame, particularly by 19th- and early 20th-century commentators who regarded him as a martyr for science. His case is still considered a landmark in the history offree thoughtand the emerging sciences

1610 Galileo Galilei pretty much CONFIRMED Copernicus’ belief that Earth went AROUND the Sun. At that time, the Catholic Church classified it as a heresy, and warned him to abandon it. It is said that he, luckily, was only spared torture and death (like Bruno faced) because his powerful friends intervened on his behalf.Nearly 400 years later in 1989 they even launched a space probe with his name on it.

In the 1860’s and 70’s when famed scientist Louis Pasteur’s presented his findings on fermentation and the role of microorganisms, some scientists and medical professionals were very skeptical of the germ theory because it challenged the prevailing mi-asma theory, which held that diseases were caused by “bad air” or vapors.. This theory was widely accepted and ingrained in medical practices of the time, so Pasteur’s ideas were met with much resistance from those who were invested in the traditional theories. By the late 19^th Century, Pasteur was proven to be correct, and eventually revolutionized medicine and microbiology.

In 1865, James Clerk Maxwell’s groundbreaking equations introduced a unified theory of electricity and magnetism.  These were initially met with resistance as well. As experimental evidence and technological advances in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, validated Maxwell’s theories, the initial criticism finally diminished. And by the early 20th century, his work became widely accepted and recognized as a cornerstone of classical electromagnetism.

Then in 1923, AGAIN, we are talking about ONLY 100 years ago, Edwin Hubble & other astronomers ALL THOUGHT that our Milky Way galaxy was the entire universe. But then at the Mt. Wilson Observatory in California, they discovered the first galaxies beyond our own. 

Up until then, the entire world believed that the ENTIRETY of the UNIVERSE was just what we now consider our one small little milky way galaxy.  

In fact, Today we believe there may be up to 200 TRILLION GALAXIES. It’s hard to believe that just 100 years ago we thought there was one, our own, that was the WHOLE universe, and today we “know” that we are one in perhaps 200 trillion. Incredible to think we were AGAIN wrong by SO much – and that was only 100 years ago. But, thanks again to technology we now know otherwise. The other galaxies were ALWAYS THERE – we just didn’t know how to see them.

In 1930,Alfred Wegener proposed that Earth’s continents move very slowly. Over millions of years they can move a long way. Between 1912 and 1929 he published a stream of fossil and rock evidence to support this theory. He died in 1930. AGAIN – This is LESS THAN 100 years ago! HIS theory of continental drift was rejected by most scientists during his lifetime. It was only in the 1960s that continental drift finally became part of mainstream science.

In 1964, Peter Higgs, of Higgs-boson fame, and his team first proposed the HIGGS-BOSON particle’s existence.  At the time, the Standard Model of particle physics had not yet even been conceived.  It took nearly 50 years later and the creation of the Large Hadron Collider to FINALLY prove his theory. HE was one of the lucky ones, as he was alive and able to see his theory proven true and he was validated during his lifetime.

In 1992, Dr. Aleksander Wolszczan DISCOVERED THE FIRST EXOPLANET (meaning a planet around another star-outside our solar system.) Now we are talking about JUST 35 years ago!!! The widely held consensus belief at that time was that there were NO PLANETS around ANY STARS, period.  Thanks to technology, today we now believe 1 in 5 stars has planets around them… again we were SOOOOO FAR OFF of what we now know to be reality.   As I mentioned before – our galaxy ALONE is known to have between 100-200 billion planets, with approximately 60 billion of those planets being in what they call the “habitable zone” that could potentially harbor life. AGAIN. This is USING OUR PARADIGM FOR OUR TYPE OF LIFE so THIS COULD IN FACT ONE DAY BE AN EVEN BIGGER NUMBER AS WELL. And EVEN bigger yet if you start to think of existence in other dimensions or realms.   

AN important note here….This whole time, when science was considering other life in the universe…. It was with the understanding that there WERE NO OTHER PLANETS IN THE UNIVERSE.

In 2017, astronomer Robert Weryk, working in Hawaii, detected a strange object traveling through our Solar System.  This turned out to be the FIRST KNOWN INTERSTELLAR OBJECT in our galaxy and was named OMUAMUA.  Dr. Avi Loeb, the head of astronomy at Harvard, brought this name to prominence in 2021 when he speculated that this could in fact be a craftfrom outside our solar system.

In 2020, a team of researchers led by Jane Greaves from Cardiff University in the UK announced the discovery of a significant source of phosphine, which is a “biosignature” gas that‘s closely related to life on Earth, in the clouds above Venus. These scientists were shamed for claiming signs of life on Venus, but now they’re back with even more evidence and this is now being considered today.

There are COUNTLESS examples of scientists who were discredited and later, often after their death, proven to be correct.

These examples also illustrate HOW far off our accepted beliefs were……I mean by factors of millions, sometimes TRILLIONS. It’s astonishing how off we were. Perhaps there are in fact different dimensions, but we just don’t know how to see them because we don’t have the technological know-how yet to do so… Perhaps other civilization ARE reaching out to us… but we don’t have the technological know-how on how to hear & decipher these messages.  Given a little time and technology, our current belief system can easily be turned on it’s head completely as we have seen.

The point of all these examples is we may not understand what is happening with all these phenomena in and around the UFO field, but that doesn’t mean they are not real. It may just mean we don’t have the technology, or the knowledge, to fully understand them yet. It may be we are off by ONE millimeter somewhere – from receiving messages from across the universe.

We are JUST now getting to the point where we are unable to tell if something is A.I. or a real human being. IF we did come upon an extraterrestrial form of A.I., and we were somehow able to communicate with it, we would have no way of knowing if it’s in fact a form of artificial intelligence, or actually an Alien Intelligence, as we would have NO point of reference or perspective on it.  Again, it seems most likely to me that this would be the case, as it seems to make more sense for a civilization to send out AI, instead of biologic beings, to explore the universe… But then again…I’m of course thinking from OUR CURRENT UNDERSTANDING.

It is clearly ignorant to judge everything by our current state of technology and our current paradigms. We all have our unique world views, based on what science tells us and what our life experiences have taught us. But I think it’s important that we REMEMBER that this WILL change in the future, so we shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss other possibilities. As most assuredly our technology, our knowledge, and our reference point will most certainly change… Better to be open minded as these changes come, than locked into A WORLD view which will one day, certainly be an archaic one.

Speaking of paradigms – PLEASE check out the website of Danny Sheehan’s organization at The NewParadigminstitute.org, as they are doing incredible work on moving our knowledge on this topic forward.

Now, there are other technological developments which could have a HUGE profound affect on what we know about the universe, and may help in the search for Extra-Terrestrial life. There’s the Proposed “Habitable Worlds Observatory” which would be a large infrared, optical, and ultraviolet space telescope. It would be optimized to search for and image Earth-size habitable exoplanets in the habitable zones of their stars, where liquid water can exist.

There is also the is The ELT (aptly named the “Extremely Large Telescope”)  in Chile’s Atacama Desert.  This telescope is slated to be operational in 2028 and will be 130 feet across making it the largest ever built. It will track down Earth-like planets around other stars, and could become the first telescope to find evidence of life outside of our Solar System. The leap forwards with the ELT can lead to a paradigm shift in our perception of the Universe, much as Galileo’s telescope did 400 years ago. 

Next I’d like to talk about us being on the verge of yet another scientific revolution which is poised to utterly change the human experience as we know it altogether.

The first part of this is the onset of Artificial Intelligence. Given that Digital computing is fundamentally based on mathematics, which is a universal language that describes patterns, structures, and relationships. These systems reflect fundamental principles that are likely to be universal. Therefore, it does stand to reason that another advanced civilization may develop it’s own form of digital artificial intelligence and/or perhaps something even more intriguing.

As we are just getting a handle on understanding this technology, we can already see how it could vastly improve our own space exploration, and as I mentioned earlier, it seems like a much more logical choice to send A.I. out into space to explore the universe, instead of humans.  A.I. doesn’t need breaks, doesn’t need to eat, doesn’t get sick, doesn’t die, doesn’t have to report everything to the wife,  etc…it can continuously learn and send back data to us.

We are starting to see Artificial General Intelligencesystems emerge that possess general cognitive abilities similar to human intelligence.

We are already hearing of Artificial Super-intelligence, which is a form of A.I. that would surpass even the best human minds in every field, including creativity, problem-solving, and social intelligence. And it’s just going to continue exponentially from there.

Elon Musk is currently building the world’s largest supercomputer called xAI. This computer will have 100,000 of these specialized Nvidia semiconductors to train and run the next version of his GROK A.I.  >>It’s just massive.<<  It is being built in a facility that has over 785,000 square feet and is set to open in 2025. And this is not the only one, others are being designed to be built right now as well.

Not only will A.I. greatly enhance our ability to explore the universe, but it will also give us better technology to understand what’s happening in our sky’s right here on earth.  

It can help us search for UFOs by analyzing large amounts of data from various sources:

such as radar, satellite imagery, radio signals, and even eyewitness reports. It has the ability to identify things like planets, planes, drones, and the space station.  A.I. algorithms can be trained to detect patterns or anomalies, sifting through Massive amounts of information, making it much easier for researchers to just focus on the anomalies in the data and investigate those further.

Additionally, there are new artificial intelligence models that can detect alien life. According to a study published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They say this algorithm can “distinguish between samples of biological and nonbiological origin 90% of the time. This method should be able to detect alien biochemistries, as well as things similar to “Earth life.” It states: ”These results mean that we may be able to find a lifeform from another planet, another biosphere, even if it is very different from the life we know on Earth,” “And, if we do find signs of life elsewhere, we can tell if life on Earth and other planets derived from a common or different origin.”  

Obviously this is not necessarily intelligent life, but it will verify confirmed life out there by mainstream science. Which will be a massive step on its own.

On top of that – IF we DO discover some new message sent from an Alien civilization we would need A.I. systems to decode and figure out the translation of such messages. Not to mention if we do actually have an interaction with another intelligence, we would again need an A.I. system in order to be able to communicate with them. A.I. did start off as a language model, afterall, and, as has been said earlier, not only would WE send A.I. up to explore space because A.I. Travels better than biologic beings like humans, but Aliens too would most likely be sending some sort of Artificial intelligence as well.  So it is actually quite likely that the first  Official Alien -Human communication would really be A.I to A.I.

This is such a new frontier that we really don’t know where it’s headed. Neither do the top people in this field. For example Geoffrey Hinton, considered the Godfather of AI, has expressed concerns about the dangers and fears of artificial intelligence. Here’s a couple quotes he has said on the subject: “The alarm bell I’m ringing has to do with the existential threat of them taking control,” “I used to think it was a long way off, but I now think it’s serious and fairly close.”  He also said: “It’s quite conceivable that humanity is just a passing phase in the evolution of intelligence.”  WOW!

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI has been quoted as saying “I prep for survival including A.I. that attacks us”

Clearly, we don’t REALLY know what AI will become or what it is capable of, but it is important to note how the top people in this field are clearly concerned.

There is yet another development, also by Elon Musk, that may have an equally profound effect on the world; That is his Neurolink company and their brain-computer interfaces (or BCIs).

These are computer chip brain implants that could potentially transform various aspects of medicine, technology, and human enhancement. In the future, these BCIs could enable direct brain-to-brain communication or allow individuals to communicate without spoken language, creating an entirely new form of interaction. Not to mention the SPEED of this communication will be much faster than anything we have now. And you can imagine – it will continuously get faster. Just as computers of 10 years ago are unusably slow today, the same will happen here.

MORE importantly, these brain-computer interfaces could allow for more seamless interaction between humans and artificial intelligence, enabling an almost cyborg like instant integration with AI systems.   

These computer interactions could take place at speeds 10x as fast -and up, of what we now take to communicate with a computer system. They are already saying that the slow part of our interacting with A.I. is the time it takes for the human being to input to the computer. Computers can already calculate 1 QUINTILLION calculations per second. The human experience as we know it, and have known it to be, is about to go through profound changes over just the next couple of generations.

This is already happening NOW: Two people have already had these computer chip implants, and 2 more are getting it imminently.

Neuralink is a form of human augmentation, But this too could potentially assist in the search for UFOs: 

• It could potentially enhance human perception by connecting our brains directly to sensors or devices that can detect signals related to UFO sightings. This enhanced perception could allow individuals to detect and interpret signals or phenomena related to UFOs that are beyond our natural senses. 
• It could enable direct access to, and analysis of, vast amounts of data related to UFO sightings & experiences.  People could analyze and interpret this data more efficiently, potentially leading to new insights and discoveries about UFO phenomena. 

The technology could potentially enhance human capabilities and allow us to perhaps gain a better understanding of manyof these mysterious phenomena.

Both A.I. and Neuro link have a HUGE potential to utterly change the human experience and the way we both understand, and interact in our world.  It’s hard to even predict what may come out of these technologies.

Perhaps a new, yet unthought of technology will come out of this, that we today can not even imagine.  

Perhaps these will lead to our ability to detect, understand, or perhaps even transverse different dimensions.

Perhaps these technologies will lead us to be able to detect, and even interpret messages from an alien civilization.  Once again, It’s possible those messages are already coming here, we just haven’t had the technology to HEAR them yet.

Perhaps even these technologies could lead to the detection of alien life itself, which again, may already be there, but we haven’t been able to detect it.

As science-fiction sounding as these ideas may be, it’s no different really that telling someone 150 years ago that you could go from New York to London in under 3 hours!

There are other technologies coming out as well to be sure….These were just a couple examples.  All of these are fascinating things to contemplate and it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.  The point being…that I believe we should at least STAY open minded with regards to these topics to embrace these possibilities.  As history has shown us time and time again, eventually our way of thinking will become an archaic ignorant way of thinking.

Thanks for listening to my thoughts on this!