Episode 20: From the Perspective of The Captain!

things in perspective. Some people will say to me, They'll say, I have an open mind because I think some lights in the sky might be UFOs. Okay, 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 ninety nine percent of these sightings do in fact have a terrestrial explanation. We have all seen strange lights in the sky. We have all seen tricks of the light or something we couldn't quite 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 looking at 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're looking at. Sometimes you look up and wonder what the heck is that, and then suddenly these lights in the sky that you were looking at turn and you realize it was just a cluster of birds. Like when you look at a three D sign that's 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 by just a

little bit, things look like a mess. But then when you're in a correct position and your perspective is correct, then the science can be read clearly. Perspective is the important factor here. Sometimes our perspective changes because we physically move, like in the three D sign example. Sometimes our perspective changes because time has passed and we can look at something from a new perspective. Well, it was scary at age nine, may not be scary, and may even be

silly at age fifteen. Things in life that were important to us at twenty might not be so important to us at forty. Grotcho Marx was hugely popular and considered hilarious in the early twentieth century, but it doesn't land the same today's audiences, who look at it from a different perspective. Another way our perspective can change is technology and knowledge gained from that technology. There's this notion that you've probably heard of from the seventeen hundreds called the

invisible ship's phenomenon. It states that when the new explorers came from Europe to the Americas, 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 reaction of the natives. It does illustrate the point that we all operate from our own paradigm in worldview.

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 the very least startled if we saw a ladybug that was ten inches long. That's outside our belief system of what we know a ladybug sh should be. That's one way to look at things. Another way is to think of it as we don't know what we don't know. It's hard to think of things this way. Put yet another way, there's a 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 eighteen seventy five, keeping in mind that that is only one hundred and fifty years ago, not ten thousand years ago, but a mere one hundred and fifty years ago, a very short amount of time in the grand scheme of things, considering modern humans have been around for about one hundred and

sixty thousand years. So you go up to the world's leading scientist of eighteen seventy five and show them your cell phone and say you can talk to any human being on the planet on this little device. Instantly, their minds would be blown. They would probably have a very 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 can also look up anything you wanted to right in the palm of your hand on that same device. This would certainly be earth shattering to them. Like the stories we have heard of Native people seeing pictures 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 eighty 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 reate. 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 maybe utterly useless, like the rotary phone. If you were trapped and only had an old rotary phone to call for help, if you didn't know how to use it, you're out of luck. You'd be so close to being able to make a call for help, yet unable to do so.

This reminds me of the Gold Record that we sent out into space on the Voyager pro back in nineteen seventy seven, which is still traveling through space, by the way, and is about fifteen billion miles from Earth and still sending back data. This gold disc was filled with music and sounds and images of Earth for another alien civilization to find. What 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're smart enough to realize they need a record player, or for some reason they do have a record player. They would then have to also know what speed to play that record at. This tiny distinction could give them an entirely different idea of what we are trying to communicate. Without that specific technology used in precisely the correct way, they wouldn't be able to access it correctly. So close but yet so far away.

That's the problem. In today's terms. We've all been there. We want to charge up our phone or another device, and there's a charger right there, but it turns out it doesn't fit our exact model. Therefore, we can't charge up so close but 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 Extraterrestrial Intelligence, this is a great idea. Also, it's

a 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 range that we are listening for, and it's coming from the exact place in space that we're looking at. 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's a giant a ton of broadcasting

all sorts of fascinating information. If you do not have a receiver, you can't hear it and it's right next door to you. Worse than that, let's say you do have a receiver and it's right there, but you're off by one millimeter when tuning it in, so you still can't dial in that station, Or maybe you don't know how to dial it incorrectly, like with the example of the rotary phone. You know how to make a call, but you don't know how to make a call on

that type of phone. Pondering these examples shows a how close we might be to make in 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 civilization's messages, but we may just be off station by

one millimeter. I think it's imperative that we keep an open mind with regard to this, as perhaps as our technology expands, we will in fact one day be able to see here or understand another civilization's messages or presents. When we come back, we're going to talk more about how technology and knowledge is continuously changing our perspective. You're listening to Beyond Contact with Captain Ron right here on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.

Welcome back to Beyond Contact. Technology, knowledge and our perspective is constantly changing and opening new avenues of discovery. Microscopic organisms were discovered in the late seventeenth century. Before that, the notion of tiny, little living organisms being everywhere surely would have been thought of as crazy. It wasn't until into the eighteen eighties, after the telephone was invented by the way that we discovered the first scientific evidence that

microorganisms are even part of the normal human system. The infrared spectrum camera was invented around nineteen ten, and it allowed us to see into the infrared spectrum of light, which sees beyond what our eyes can see. In nineteen fifty seven, French scientist Vladimir Gavro first began researching infrasound machines that could hear well beyond that of the human ear.

There are, of course, countless 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. 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 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 see 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 archaeological discoveries, for example, are shunned or even excluded for having those ideas. In an oversimplification to illustrate the point, it's the notion that many ancient cultures subscribe to a flat earth cosmography. Then we realized, of course,

that 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 vorociously seems foolish, as oftentimes these ideas eventually become proven correct as we gain more knowledge, often through technological advancements. I believe many of these 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 these ideas that challenge the currently held paradigm, as perhaps it's just a matter of not having the right person, perspective or technological know how don't just dismiss something out of hand because it doesn't line up with your current worldview, 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, oh, you can't get there from here. 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 ten thousand years. The nearest star is four point two light years away. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year, which is about six trillion miles for those keeping track, So if we could travel near the speed of light,

it would take us about four years. With today's current technology, we can travel about thirty seven thousand miles an 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 fifteenth century, you can easily imagine Europeans saying exactly the same thing about the new world of North America that you can't get there from here. Of course, many of them didn't even believe there was a here to come to, simply because they hadn't had the technology to

know better. But of course, when we did discover the new world, it would take a minimum of two to four months, depending on the weather, to make that trip just one way for a reference, that's about fourteen hundred to twenty eight hundred hours. Quite a journey. Let's again imagine you could travel back to eighteen twenty five, just two hundred years ago. This is before we had steamship technology or even Morrise code. So travel and communication was

what we would consider today painfully slow. Then we developed through technology better ships and even planes. Today boats can go from New York to London in about one hundred and thirty five hours instead of the twenty eight hundred hours that used to take. And I bet you two hundred years from now that one hundred and thirty five

hour number will seem painfully slow. We now, of course, even have planes yet to be imagined technology that they didn't have in eighteen twenty five, and the Concord plane can make the trip from New York to London in under three hours. So something that just two hundred years ago would take twenty eight hundred dollars now takes under three We're talking about one one thousandth of the time.

I can certainly imagine people in eighteen twenty five saying there's no way you can get there from here in anything close to that time. It was simply impossible from their worldview, from their state of technology at the time. So we have to be open minded, and we have to remember we are using our current state of technology as a point of reference. Many of these unknowns of today will surely be within our scope of understanding. In

the future. In nineteen hundred, 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 so egotistically locked into our own current point of reference. These these analogies are to illustrate the point that things change. These comparisons to our technology or knowledge base are from just one hundred

and fifty to two hundred years ago. They also illustrate how fast and how dramatic 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 on when they develop things like AI or perhaps something even more advanced, something unknown to us, you can imagine how fast their technological growth would be a civilization reaching our current level just one thousand years earlier than we have, and you can imagine how far ahead they would be technologically, and they, of course have had potentially nine billion more

years to develop. Keeping in mind that the accepted age of the universe is thirteen point seven billion years old and the accepted age of the Earth is just four point five billion years old, it seems very reasonable to assume that another intelligent civilization in the universe could be over nine billion years ahead of us in technological development.

Given what we have learned in just the last two hundred years, you can imagine a civilization wouldn't need to be nine billion years ahead of us technologically, but a mere nine million years or even nine thousand years could mean such a vast difference in understanding of the universe that it would easily be incomprehensible for us from our

current perspective to even understand. When you consider what a profoundly rapid change AI is making in our understanding of the world in the universe, you can easily extrapolate that out to a civilization that's a thought thousand or let's say ten thousand 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 with higher technology, we may not even be able

to grasp the fanciful notions that they have mastered. We just saw how a two hundred year advantage that we have over those in eighteen twenty five, and how drastically our understanding of the universe and the human experience is. And that's from the same species, in the same location, on the same planet, just simply looking at the world

from a two hundred year difference in perspective. 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 are able to gain the knowledge to prove them. You're listening to Beyond Contact on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal podcast network. We are

back on Beyond Contact. 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 these examples for perspective. So going back to twenty five hundred BC, the Egyptians thought that the sun god Raw, 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 nine year old would laugh at this notion. In five hundred BC, the Greeks first worked out that the Earth wasn't flat, going against the common belief that it was indeed flat. Two thousand years later, in fifteen forty three, Nicholas Copernicus figured out that the Earth revolved around the Sun, at a time when nobody knew that the stars were even other suns, and he did this

using only the naked eye without any technology. Fifteen years later, in fifteen nineteen, the Magellan Elcano expedition was the first to provide practical proof that the Earth was actually round. In the year sixteen hundred, Geodorno Bruno was buried 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 call today 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 reincarnation of the soul.

It was only after his death that he gained considerable fame, particularly by nineteenth and twentieth century commentators, who regarded him as a martyr for science. His case is still considered a landmark in the history of free thought and the emerging sciences. In sixteen ten, Galileo pretty much confirmed Comperticus's belief that the Earth went around the Sun. At that time, the Catholic Church classified it as 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 four hundred years later, in nineteen eighty nine, they even launched a space probe

with his name on it. In the eighteen sixties and seventies, when famed scientist Louis Pastor presented his findings on fermentation in the role of microorganisms, some scientists and medical professionals were very skeptical of the germ theory because it challenged the prevailing miasma theory, which held the diseases were caused

by bad error or vapors. This theory was widely accepted and ingrained in medical practices of the time, so Pastor's ideas were met with much resistance from those who were invested in the traditional theories. By the late nineteenth century, Pastor was proven to be correct and eventually revolutionized medicine and microbiology. Another example, in eighteen sixty five, James Clark Maxwell's groundbreaking equations introduced a unified theory of electricity and magnetism.

They were initially met with resistance, as well as experimental evidence and technological advances in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries validated Maxwell's theories. The initial criticism finally diminished, and by the early twentieth century his work has become widely accepted and recognized as a cornerstone of classical electromagnetism. Then, in nineteen twenty three. Again, we're only talking about one hundred years ago. Edwin Hubbell and other astronomers all thought

that our Milky Way galaxy was the entire universe. But then at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, they discovered the first galaxy 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 that there are

up to two hundred trillion galaxies. It's hard to believe that just one hundred years ago we thought there was one our own that was the whole universe, and today we know that we are one in perhaps two hundred trillion. Incredible to think we were again wrong by so much, and that was just one hundred years ago. But thanks again to technology, we now know otherwise. The other galaxies were always there, but we didn't know how to see them.

In nineteen thirty, Alfred Wagner proposed the Earth's continents moved very slowly over millions of years, and move a long way. Between nineteen twelve and nineteen twenty nine, he published a stream of fossil and rock evidence to support this theory. He died in nineteen thirty, again less than one hundred years ago. His theory of continental drift was rejected by

most scientists during his lifetime. It was only in the nineteen sixties that continental drift finally became part of mainstream science. In nineteen sixty four, Peter Higgs of Higgs Boson fame and his team first proposed the Higgs Boson particles existence. At the time, the standard model of particle physics had not yet even been conceived. It took nearly fifty 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 nineteen ninety two, doctor Alexander Wolscand discovered the first exoplanet, meaning a planet around another star outside our Solar system. Now we are talking about just thirty five years ago. This widely held consensus belief at the time was that

there were no planets around any stars period. Thanks to technology today, we now believe one in five stars has planets. Around them. Again, we were so far off of what we now know to be reality. As I mentioned before, our galaxy alone is known to have between one hundred and two hundred billion planets, with approximately sixty billion of those planets in what they're calling the habitable zone that could potentially harbor life. Again, that's using our paradigm for

our type of life. So this could in fact one day be an even bigger number as well, And it could be even bigger yet if you start to think about the existence of other dimensions or realms. An important note here is the 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 twenty seventeen, astronomer Robert Work, 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 a Muamua Avi Lobe. The head of astronomy at Harvard brought this name to prominence in twenty twenty one when he speculated that this could in fact

be a craft from outside our Solar System. In twenty twenty a team of researchers led by Jane Graves from Cardiff University in the UK announced the discovery of a significant source of phosphorin, 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 don't know how to see them because we don't have the technological know

how yet to do so. Perhaps other civilizations are reaching out to us, but we don't have the technological know how on how to hear and decipher these messages. Given a little time in technology, our belief system can easily be turned on its head. As we've seen. The point of all these examples is we may not understand what is happening with all this phenomena in and around the UFO field. But that doesn't mean it's not real. It may just mean we don't have the technology or the

knowledge to fully understand them yet. And maybe we are off by one millimeters somewhere from receiving the messages from across the universe. We are just now getting to the point where we are unable to tell if someone is AI or a real human being. If we did come upon an extraterrestrial form of AI, 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 itself or actually an alien intelligent 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 much more sense for our civilization to send out some form of AI instead of a biological being to explore the universe. But then again, of course, I'm thinking with our current way of understanding, it is clearly ignorant to judge everything by

our current state of technology and our current paradigms. We all have unique worldviews based on what science tells us and what our life experience has taught us, but I think it's important that we all 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 when these changes come than locked into a worldview which will one day certainly be an archaic one. Speaking of paradigms, check out the website of Danny Sheehan's organization at the New Paradigm Institute dot org, as they are doing incredible work on moving our knowledge in this

area forward. When we return, we're going to take a look at the latest technologies and how they may affect our understanding of possible extraterrestrial communication as well as our own human experiences. You're listening to Beyond Contact on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal podcast network. Welcome back to Beyond Contact. I am Captain Ron, and we've been talking about the importance of perspective and having an

open mind with regard to ET and UFO issues. We've seen how technology can open up a whole new world to us, often one that was always there, but we just didn't know how to perceive its presence, and we've talked about how oftentimes many of these new discoveries were ridiculed, were dismissed out of hand, yet eventually those outlandish ideas were often later proven true. You can see how all

this applies nicely to the notion of alien civilizations. We have seen throughout history that mankind has been caught up in its own hubris, when in fact it is very often wrong in even the basic understandings of the universe as we now know it to be. There are other technological developments which could have a huge profound effect on what we know about the universe and may help in

the search of extraterrestrial life. There's the proposed Habitable World's Observatory, which would be a large infrared, optical and ultraviolet space telescope. It would be optimized to search for and image Earth sized habitable exoplanets in the habitable zones of their stars where liquid water can exist. There is also the ELT aptly named the Extremely Large Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert.

This telescope is slated to be operational in twenty twenty eight and will be one hundred and thirty feet across, making it the largest ever built. It will track down earthlike planets around other stars and could become the first telescope to find evidence of life outside of our solar system. The leap forward with the ELT can lead to a paradigm shift in our perception of the entire universe, much

like Galileo's telescope did four hundred 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. The first part of this is the onset of artificial intelligence. Given the 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, does stand a reason that another advanced civilization may develop its 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 space exploration, and as I mentioned earlier, it seems like a much more logical choice to send AI out into space to explore the universe

instead of humans. AI doesn't need breaks, does it need to eat, doesn't get sick, doesn't die, doesn't have to report to the wife. Nothing, It can continuously learn and send back data to us. We are starting to see artificial general intelligence systems emerge that possess general cognitive abilities that are similar to human intelligence. We are already hearing about artificial superintelligence, which is a form of AI 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 over one hundred thousand of these specialized Navidia superconductors to train and run the next version of his gronk AI. It's just massive. It's being built in a facility that has overset one hundred and eighty five thousand square feet

and is set to open in twenty twenty five. And this is not the only one. Others are being designed to be built right now as well. Not only will AI greatly enhance our ability to explore the universe, but it will give us better technology to understand what's happening in our skies 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. AI algorithms can be trained to detect patterns or anomalies sifting through just massive amounts of information, making it much easier for researchers to focus only on the anomalies and 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 and distinguish between samples of biological and non biological origin ninety percent of the time. This method should be able to detect alien biochemistries as well as things similar to Earth life.

It states that these results mean that we may be able to find a life form from another planet, another biosphere, even if it's very different from the life we know here 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 a different origin. Obviously, this is not necessarily intelligent life, but it will verify confirmed life out there to mainstream science, which is a

massive step on its own. If we do discover some new message sent from an alien civilization, we would need AI 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 AI system in order to be able to communicate with them.

AI did start off a language model, after all, and as has been said earlier, not only would we send AI up to Explorer space because AI travels better than a biologic being 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 AI to AI. 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, Jeffrey Hinton, considered the godfather of AI, has expressed concerns about the dangers and fears of artificial intelligence. Here's a couple quotes that 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 this was a long way off, but I now think it's serious and fairly close. He also wrote, it's quite conceivable that humanity is just a passing phase in the

evolution of intelligence. Wow. Pretty incredible. Sam Altman, the CEO of open AI, has been quoted as saying, I prep for survival, including AI that attacks us. So clearly, we really don't know what AI will become or what it's capable of, but it's important to note how the top people in this field are clearly concerned. There is yet another development, also by Elon Musk. They may have an equally profound effect on the world. That is his Neurallink

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 with outspoken language, creating an entirely new form of interaction. Not to mention the speed of this communication, which will be much faster than anything we have now.

As you can imagine, it will continuously get faster. Just as computers of ten years ago are unusuably 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 ten times as fast as we communicate, and up of what we now take to communicate with a computer system. They are already saying that the slow part of our interaction with AI is the time it takes for the human being to input to the computer. Computers can already calculate one 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 generations, and this is already happening right now. Two people have already had a computer chip implant, and two 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 phenomenon related to UFOs that are beyond our natural senses. It could enable direct access to an analysis of vast amounts of data related to UFO sightings and experiences. People could analyze and interpret this data more efficiently, potentially leading to new

insights and discoveries about the UFO phenomenon. This technology could potentially enhance human capabilities and allow us to perhaps gain a better understanding of many of these different mysterious phenomenon. AI and neurlink have a huge potential to utterly change the human experience and the way we both understand and interact with our world. Perhaps these technologies will lead us to be able to detect and even interpret messages from

an alien civilization. Once again, it's possible these messages are already coming here, we just haven't had the technology to hear them yet. These are just a couple examples, The point being that I believe we should stay at the very least open minded with regards to these topics as history has shown us time and time again. Eventually our way of thinking will become an archaic, ignorant way of thinking.

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