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  • @JohnTheHutDweller No arguments here. :-P The History Channel... could do a lot better at a lot of things...

  • @TKnightcrawler

    Undoubtedly there are aliens out there somewhere... but it's unknown if they're as we expect them. Do a Google search on "cavemen or angels" and click on the first link. It's a science fiction idea, but I remember it being a bit more popular. LOL Basically, we'll probably discover hundreds of intelligent species until we find one at a level we can interact with. So my guess is we have a bit of a wait before we can really talk to any aliens.

  • @TKnightcrawler

    ...to do first-hand research presents itself. The only practical way of researching would be to chase the UFO down from multiple angles, informed by a network. But there'd be too many false alarms, and too many people would go into it with expectations: the last thing they should have when dealing with the unknown.

    If I ever saw an alien first-hand, that'd be great. But no, I haven't. When I mentioned aliens, I was speaking generally, not of UFOs/abductions.

  • @TKnightcrawler

    That was something I took for granted about the myth; a baseline I thought was there. And every person has their own baselines of what "must" be true about previous stories. As multiple people take different things for granted as true, they get further from the actual truth.

    The story of aliens/UFOs has deviated so much over the years that there is really nothing valuable a person can get out of it. It's best to ignore it entirely and develop in other ways until an opportunity..

  • @TKnightcrawler ancient aliens on the history channel is a disgrace

  • @JohnTheHutDweller

    No, I have not. "Research" into aliens and UFOs has become so interwoven with new-age bullshit within the last 15 or so years that they've become impossible to separate from one another. Really, the rate at which new-age theories evolve is startling. That's the reason I read part of Plato as I mentioned: I wanted to see how far off track new-age ideas about Atlantis were from the original dialogues. The real twist? Never once in the story is advanced technology mentioned.

  • @TKnightcrawler I could make a whole series of videos in response to that statement, so have you met any of these aliens? (not joking)

  • @JohnTheHutDweller

    Our technology will soon be at the point where we can emulate properties of a human brain digitally, or transfer a human mind to a digital medium, or produce an entirely unique life form with parallel capabilities. We might eventually be able to meet aliens, and some of them might also have emotions despite having a completely different "brain." So we can demonstrate that the model I suggested is a far more likely one, in more and more ways as science progresses.

  • @JohnTheHutDweller

    Anyway sorry, getting a little off-track. The point is that thought and emotion as an *expression* of brain activity is a better model that doesn't require multiple unprovable additional assumptions. Just as a movie can be made out of individual pixels acting together, a personality can be made out of the components of an individual brain acting together. No assumption required.

    But it gets better, because this model is testable.

  • @JohnTheHutDweller

    ...of course you can say "Well, a matching soul was waiting" or "Sperm and egg meeting in the real world produce a soul at the origin of the receivers' signal that resonates with the brain that will develop *in the future,* and will remain in resonance despite the growth and change of the brain." And as a person grows, doesn't that mean the soul at the source should change, not the receiver? But we see the brain changes.

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