Quantum Streaming Math and Theories -
Issue 47. Nautilus. - Quantum Consciousness Theorist, "Penrose believes we must go beyond Neuroscience and into the mysterious world of Quantum Mechanics to explain our rich mental life." View his presentation, The Quantum Nature of Consciousness/YouTube. Of Roger Penrose, Physicist Lee Smolin/Time Reborn says, he's "one of the very few people I've met in my life who, without reservation, I call a genius." Smolin in Scientific American - Physics Must Evolve.
Eclectic and otherwise, Interesting Links -
- Perfect timing on this one: Astronomers report evidence of the Multiverse. Reported 5/2017, The Guardian
- Mad Honey Documentary - Sweet, with a bite and a kick. Compared to Ayahuasca, this substance requires no mixing or blending and appears to be just as potent. Fascinating cultural glimpse. Shorter and more recent film from Northface 'The Last Honey Hunter a co-op with Nat Geo. Not for the height sensitive.
- Sidenote: When Ayahuasca works - this trip ended. Link.
- Worldwide Telepathy Centers are preparing for ET Contact. Pamela Shelly's Telepathy Center
- Miracle Dog, Mo survived 9 months, a brutal winter and (with help) she is now back home. Time
- Are we that smart? Really. Humans vs. Animal Intelligence NYTimes
- Intelligence we can learn from. OneGreenPlanet: Ocean Dwellers
Interview with Russell Brinegar on Wendy's Coffeehouse and we continue our talk in a 2nd interview on Conscious Living on Empower Radio.
As the introduction states, "Following a near-death experience that prompted a personal awakening to the underlying, interdimensional nature of reality, the author shares insights into the realm of the paranormal."
Russell has given me permission to share some of that book here on the blog. Too long to post all at once, I'll post in segments. The book is available on Amazon.
**Please NOTE: Links have been added by me (Wendy) for context and support. There are no links in the original copy.
[Chapter
4]
UFOs
and the Technological Singularity
Russell Brinegar, 'Overlords of the Singularity: The Manipulation of Humankind by Hidden UFO Intelligences and the Quest for Transcendence'- CreateSpace
“I believe there is a machinery of mass manipulation behind
the UFO phenomenon.” – Dr. Jacques Vallee
In recent years,
the science of quantum mechanics and theoretical physics have merged with the
science of consciousness itself.
Concepts such as quantum
entanglement have changed the way we look at the universe and our place in
it. *Scientific Breakthrough, reported 7/2017, The Independent
Quantum entanglement poses that,
prior to the moment of the Big Bang, all particles that are now spread out
across the Cosmos were once unified as a cohesive whole, and as such all
subatomic particles in the universe remain connected to one another on a
fundamental level, regardless of the distance they have grown apart by the
expansion of the Universe.
Add to that
the observer effect, in which the act
of observation itself is the factor that converts a pure energy wave into a
particle of matter, introducing an element of subjectivity into our concept of
the universe that we once thought of as immutable, objective reality.
The presumed solidity of the universe that we
once took for granted has now melted into a chaos of
pure energy and quantum
potentiality, the solidity revealing itself scientifically as a mere
illusion. One of the physicists on the
forefront of this fascinating and complex field is theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. With his many books, Kaku has done an excellent job translating the
mechanics and implications of modern theoretical physics into language that
anyone of reasonable intelligence can understand, regardless of scientific
background.
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One such book is Parallel Worlds. In this work, Kaku speaks of the
mathematician, John von Neumann, who was the first person to use the term, Singularity.
Popularized by science fiction writer Vernor Vinge, the Singularity now commonly refers to an approaching state of humankind, when, following a long history of slow, painstaking progress, technological advancements accelerate exponentially into the realm of advanced, self-aware, artificial intelligence that vastly exceeds the computing capability and storage capacity of the human mind and takes us into completely unknown territory. *Astronomers report evidence of the Multiverse. Reported 5/2017, The Guardian
Popularized by science fiction writer Vernor Vinge, the Singularity now commonly refers to an approaching state of humankind, when, following a long history of slow, painstaking progress, technological advancements accelerate exponentially into the realm of advanced, self-aware, artificial intelligence that vastly exceeds the computing capability and storage capacity of the human mind and takes us into completely unknown territory. *Astronomers report evidence of the Multiverse. Reported 5/2017, The Guardian
Suddenly, and soon, we will be confronted by
machines of our own creation that are possibly billions of times smarter than
we are. As far as we know, an event such
as the Singularity has never happened in all of human history, and the
implications of this inevitable event that is soon upon us are completely
unknown.
The Singularity
is currently a hot subject among futurists, physicists, and AI (artificial
intelligence) experts, generating much debate and theorizing. Some individuals who take the time to examine
the subject and discover the quagmire of complicated issues that self-aware AI
inevitably thrusts upon us become overwhelmed, frightened, or even
repulsed. Some even decide to reject
technology altogether to save humankind before we create a monster that
destroys us.
Others who share a more
optimistic outlook, like Michio Kaku and futurist Ray Kurzweil, have decided
that, despite the daunting possibilities of disaster for the human race,
embracing the coming Singularity and trying to make it work for us is the
correct route to take. The concept of
the Singularity has spawned an entire subculture with quasi-religious
overtones, and produced individuals who call themselves Singularitarians.
These
technical optimists express idealistic ambitions of merging human consciousness
with the machines we are about to create.
The Singularity is expected to produce a hybrid version of humanity,
part biological, and part machine, with a very real possibility for the
achievement of human immortality, having transcended the biological format we
have been using thus far, and transferring our consciousness into a silicon
substrate with indefinitely expanded lifespans.
This is the gist of the Transhumanist movement. These new visionaries imagine electronically-augmented
humans in our near future who possess expanded thought and perceptual
abilities, possibly even superhuman powers, taking us into a post-human,
post-biological world. The optimists
view the coming Singularity as the next stage in human evolution, and look
forward to a form of transcendence from our current biological
limitations.
In its most extreme
version, the Singularity might even allow humanity to finally escape the
confines of three-dimensional reality altogether, and possibly merge with other
entities that may exist throughout the universe who have also achieved a
post-physical form of cosmic transcendence.
In Kaku’s, The Future of the Mind, and Ray Kurzweil’s, The Singularity is Near, the possibilities of downloading the memories and personalities of
human beings into machines to create conscious, artificial intelligences that
were once completely human but now exist as computer-enhanced or augmented
cyborgs are explored.
Such a person, who
was once completely biological, is now transformed into an immortal synthetic
human being with an indefinite lifespan. The Holy Grail of human technological ambition, immortality, is projected to exit the realm of science fiction and
enter the realm of reality with the approaching Singularity, which futurists
like Kurzweil predict will occur sometime around the year 2045. *Immortality Project Underway. Reported 3/2017, The Guardian
The problem is,
because the coming Singularity will propel us into completely unknown
territory, there is really no way to predict the outcome. Some fear that, once machines are suddenly
billions of times smarter than humans and self-aware, they might just decide to
destroy humanity like a mere nuisance and take over the planet.
James Barrat, author of Our Final Invention:Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era, states (chapter 1 audible): If the ASI [artificial superintelligence] doesn’t care about us, and there’s little reason to think that it should, it will experience no compunction about treating us unethically, even taking our lives after promising to help us.
Chapter 4, Part One. Continued in following posts. Previous post/Russell Brinegar - Link
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