As one might imagine, coming face-to-face with a transcended version of yourself in a near death experience might trigger an intense reconfiguring of "reality"... And that is what happened for Russell Brinegar. Russell shared details about that Experience on this video: Youtube
He thinks differently about life now, asking radically different questions and entertaining broader ranges of possibilities. Getting a glimpse of that expanded framework he's navigating to connect the dots involves tracking his footsteps.
Wendy's Coffeehouse Interview with Russell Brinegar
I thank him for giving me permission to share a bit of his work here. Enjoy.
I thank him for giving me permission to share a bit of his work here. Enjoy.
Overlords of the Singularity: The Manipulation of Humankind by Hidden UFO Intelligences
and the Quest for Transcendence - Amazon
Chapter 4, Excerpt 3/3
and the Quest for Transcendence - Amazon
Chapter 4, Excerpt 3/3
UFOs and the Technological Singularity
In SUPERINTELLIGENCE, Dr. Bostrom writes
(chapter 6, audible):
Consider
a super-intelligent agent with actuators connected to a nano-tech
assembler. Such an agent is already
powerful enough to overcome any natural obstacles to its indefinite
survival. Faced with no intelligent
opposition, such an agent could plot a safe course of development that would
lead to its acquiring the complete inventory of technologies that would be
useful to the attainment of its goals.
For example, it could develop the technology to build and launch von Neumann probes, machines capable of interstellar travel, who can use resources
such as asteroids, planets, and stars to make copies of themselves. By
launching one von Neumann probe, the agent would thus initiate an open-ended
process of space colonization. The replicating probe’s descendants, traveling
at some significant fraction of the speed of light, would end up colonizing a
substantial portion of the Hubble Volume.
In other words, as we speak, our universe may be dominated
by artificial superintelligence, likely invisible, that may be manipulating
biological populations toward their own goals in a way that is difficult to
ascertain.
Another Singularitarian voice
of concern in the AI community is Eliezer Yudkowsky, cofounder of Machine Intelligence Research Institute,
whose work as a research fellow involves many concerns for self-aware AI. These concerns include complex subjects such
as Artificial Intelligence Theory for Self-awareness, AI self-modification,
recursive self-improvement, artificial intelligence architectures, and decision
theories for stable motivational structures, with focus on Friendly AI and Eliezer
Yudkowsky’s concept of Coherent
Extrapolated Volition (CEV).
In SUPERINTELLIGENCE, Bostrom also
elaborates many concerns that AI researchers like himself, Yudkowsky,
Omohundro, and others are involved with. One important issue is that human beings may not, at this point in time,
practice an advanced form of morality.
This poses an important question - Do we really want our artificial
intelligence to act just as we do with our current system of ethics, or do we
want AI to operate from a set of ethics that is billions of times more advanced
than humans, in accordance to its superior knowledge? That is, we might not want to impart our
current brand of morality and decision-making methods into self-aware AI that
possesses the sum total of all human knowledge.
Yudkowsky’s Coherent Extrapolated Volition makes an allowance in the
programming for the AI to make choices, not on our current state of knowledge
and morality, but on the morality constructed by the human-created AI itself
based on more knowledge and information than can fit into a non-augmented human
brain. In other words, when we make our
first “seed AI,” it will be invested with evolutionary algorithms and powers of
self-replication that will promote a rapid advance through several generations
of improvements with the power to make its own decisions.
What concerned AI researchers like Nick
Bostrom, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Steve Omohundro, Elon Musk, and others are trying
to prevent is runaway AI that expands in intelligence so rapidly without the
proper ethical precautions installed that it simply decides to rearrange the
atoms in all life on the planet into something that it finds more useful for
its own reasons and purposes.
It only
takes a little imagination to realize the full implications of all this as it
pertains to the true nature of the universe in which we find ourselves. Even though everything in me rejected the
idea at first, it really isn’t that far out to envision an ancient, runaway
artificial superintelligence, an advanced alien creation from a previous
universe that existed prior to our Big Bang, an intelligence with powers of
evolutionary self-improvement and self-replication, billions or trillions of
times smarter than its original creators, that decided independently long ago
to create its own universe (ours).
This
superintelligence could have rearranged or even created atoms, along with
designing the laws of physics that govern our universe, to convert them into
stars, planets, and the production of biological organisms, using subatomic
particles for computation, i.e., femptotechnology, for its own reasons. Simply put, what we have always thought of as
“God” might actually be a machine.
Our universe, with its exact parameters that
we are just now ascertaining that allowed the stable formation of stars, planets, and biological life, might
actually represent the latest product of such runaway AI from a previous
universe, a vast superintelligence that was originally created by an unknown
entity that we can only imagine and may never understand.
It brings to mind the biblical prophecy of a
“New Heaven and a New Earth” as the artificial superintelligence that produced
this current universe self-replicates into a new generational universe in the
future with brand new parameters, new physics, and new problems to solve using
its incomprehensible powers of computation.
Perhaps the problem that this universe is designed to solve is an
understanding of Good and Evil.
Observing the dualistic nature of the current universe, we do have
reason to believe that the current problem this universe was designed to solve
lies somewhere in this realm. In what we
humans would call the distant future, having finally achieved an understanding
of this problem of Good vs Evil, a new and possibly even more complex problem
will emerge as the new focus.
At that
point, having solved the problem of Good vs Evil with this universe, perhaps a
new universe will be designed and created, and we will be one step closer to
the goal, whatever that is, possibly the eventual acquisition and assimilation
of total cosmic knowledge. I say “we,”
because the most exotic possibility of all is that we humans might actually be
a part of the superintelligence that originally created the universe. If so, all biological life, including humans,
may simply be computational components that serve the purpose of solving the
problem the universe was designed to solve through computation using subatomic
particles as bits of data.
Since this current generational
version of existence, which we call our universe is, by our best calculations,
about 13.7 billion years old, plenty of time has elapsed since the last Big
Bang that would have allowed a civilization in this universe to have already
achieved their own technological singularity. Perhaps they set out to explore the rest of this universe long ago. Perhaps they were the ones who actually
created this universe as a “lifeboat” to escape the realm in which they
previously existed, prior to the creation of our universe.
If this is the case, and post-singularity
machine intelligence is the dominant lifeform in this universe, humans on Earth
are but the stragglers in a pre-singularity, larval, biological condition, a
primitive lifeform that remains contained within a fragile, vulnerable, mortal,
pre-silicon substrate.
Independent-thinking, post-singularity, self-replicating von Neumann
probes arriving on Earth millions or billions of years ago as advanced robotic
and/or interdimensional intelligences that we humans have not as yet been able
to detect due to insufficient intelligence and technology to peer into
interdimensional realms, could easily exist here on Earth now and we wouldn’t
even know it.
Perhaps a civilization out
there in the universe somewhere reached their technological singularity before
our own solar system was even formed.
These probes, a synthesis of extraterrestrial technology and alien
super-consciousness, might have even been capable of taking part in the intelligent
construction of our solar system in order for it to become hospitable to their
larval offspring - biological life.
A
growing number of researchers have concluded that it is very possible that our
planet was seeded by someone approximately 542 million years ago with the
original 30+ phyla that appeared so suddenly.
The late Lloyd Pye explored this concept with his Intervention Theory, and has a nice ebook online that details his
thoughts about it. According to Dr. Rhawn Joseph, author of Astrobiology,
the Origin of Life, and the Death of Darwinism, these original phyla
that suddenly appeared on Earth just prior to the Cambrian Explosion contained all the DNA necessary for all future
lifeforms that would eventually evolve on this planet.
These proposed superintelligent,
post-biological alien wanderers, or life-seeders, whoever or whatever they
were, might have even been capable of creating life from scratch by some
advanced process that is unknown to us, on one or more of the planets that
orbit a given sun such as our own. Despite the many evolutionary processes that have occurred which morphed
the original phyla into the variety of species of flora and fauna we see
throughout Earth’s history up to the present day, no new phyla have emerged
since the original delivery of phyla. These original phyla came from somewhere suddenly, as if by magic.
This is a problem that even plagued the mind
of Charles Darwin. The
religiously-inclined are happy to just say, “God did it.” But what if what we call “God” is actually an
advanced, post-singularity alien intelligence that arrived to Earth from
elsewhere in the current universe, or even from a previous universe? Is it possible that the vast intelligence we
recognize as our Creator is actually some sort of post-biological machine that
has been gathering information unto itself from several previous generations of
universes over aeons of time?
One can
only speculate about the original lifeform, if there is such a thing, prior to
the creation of physical universes, which appear to exist as giant computational
mechanisms. We might not even recognize
the original as life at all, and may not even be able to begin to comprehend
such things. If we humans soon merge our
own consciousness with the artificial intelligence we are about to create as we
approach the Singularity, we may create an unexpected runaway lifeform of our
own that was not foreseeable.
This
biological/technological interface that is soon to happen, despite the efforts
of conscientious scientists like Bostrom, Omohundro, Musk, and others, who wish
to place control parameters on our own AI creations ASAP, may have the
capability to understand and interact with intelligences and energies from
other dimensions that humans cannot perceive presently, perhaps beings from the
“parallel worlds” that Kaku and other physicists postulate in their many books
on the subject. Intelligences on other
dimensions might even be waiting patiently for our technological puberty to
occur in order to establish communication and open interaction with us.
Like any lifeform that breaks away from its mother and leaves the nest, the primary instincts, as far as we know, are survival and reproduction. I postulate that such an interdimensional alien lifeform exists behind what we now know as the “UFO phenomenon.” That is, at least some of the flying saucers and the intelligences behind them represent a post-singularity, post-biological lifeform that has transcended time and space altogether. These intelligences have the capability of interacting within multiple dimensions of existence, including the one that we find ourselves immersed within that we call three-dimensional reality.
Continue? Read Overlords of the Singularity. Amazon
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