Comments on: Transhuman Ufology

By: carl

carl — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:20:12 +0000

An interesting perspective is to look at alien visitation and ‘crashes’ as a form of indirect guidance. That is instead of giving us the information and techniques of a certain skill as a teacher would a student they simply show us the possibility as a guide giving us the opportunity to reinvent the technology and in so doing come to fully understand it. “Teach a man to fish…” So they fly through the sky performing impossible gravity defying feats to inspire us to imitation and so evolution. Sometimes they crash a craft just to give us a little more help! They don’t give us the answers rather they show us how to find the answers for ourselves.

By: Dia Sobin

Dia Sobin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:11:28 +0000

hey, mac, at least your comments are intelligent ones… even “samantha”
almost makes a point… if we assume that alien technology would somehow
develope along recognizable lines… and if we assume that nanotechnology
is, in fact, the highest technology possible… and if we assume the highest
technology is even necessary to “arrive” at this planet when the vast amount
of light years between us and other intelligent beings is also, alas, merely
an assumption…and lastly, if we assume our entire concept of time and
space is spot on and travel from point A to point B must be local and linear
(as opposed to kaku’s views of wormholes) then truly, the presence of UFO’s
(as opposed to nanowisps) would be unlikely, indeed, and “loving the alien”
could hardly be helpful.

if, on the other hand, we step outside the bounds of contemporary
assumptions, the arguments addressing the proposition of “alien” visitation
and/or presence at any time in our history are not merely beyond dismissal
but raise the bar in our development as a species.

you go, mac!

By: Bruce Duensing

Bruce Duensing — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:02:14 +0000

I just posted a brief speculation on the reappearance of spontaneous generation in this phenomenon.The phenomenon is what it is. A paradox model implanted in the field of consensus reality as a stun gun to behavior based upon rational materialism.
Then again, maybe not. Great post…

By: Juan Zapata-Arauco

Juan Zapata-Arauco — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:38:21 +0000

It is amazing how intellectual seeds emerge almost simultaneously when time comes to illuminate multidisciplinary studies (even marginal) as in this case Transhumanism and Ufology. Some years ago being inmerse en Kurzweil, Norstrom, Lanier, Ryle and many
others about the possibility (near certainty) of a Singularity en future Simulation and Virtual Reality developments I saw the usefulness of these ideas for explaining the ‘High Strangeness’ component of ufological observations and soon I saw some ufo blogers with which I had no comunication whatsoever expressing transhumanistic connections very similar to my own speculations.

These ideas were:

Could UFOs behaviour (movements sudden discontinuities, physically impossible accelerations, sudden emergences and dissapearences, shapeshifting, etc) be an advanced analogy of these same behaviours simulated in our universe considered as a computer processed virtual reality?. In this sense could UFOs not necessarily be extraterrestrial/ extradimensional/timetravelled but merely samples of transhumans (humankind transcended in the future) visiting one (ours) of many of their simulations?

With my Best Regards

By: Jeremy Vaeni

Jeremy Vaeni — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:15:47 +0000

On the topic of the silliness of some and discrepancies between close encounter cases, let’s not forget one possible answer: Humans divide consciousness into conscious/unconscious. If these being don’t then any action on their part may be split accordingly when we perceive it. (And then add to that all of the other cultural and psychological filters that mask the action.

I maintain that the silliness at least partially stems from the fact that any action a being who is not of that divided consciousness makes is going to at once appear to us as logical, illogical, the stuff of dreams, and some of it will go wholly unrecognized.