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Post by sunbow on Jul 19, 2012 18:40:01 GMT -6
Scientist predict the AI 'Singularity' in 20 to 50 years: a point where machine intelligence will exceed human capability. This does not mean Machine Intelligence will be 'Alive', rather that it will be able to think and act with intent Like a living being.
In peoples encounters, did anyone notice very advanced machines?
It might be that the ship itself was the Machine Intelligence. It is possible that the ETs interact with machines telepathically. I am just curious that we do not see many reports like the Sci-Fi future we envision. In most cases the beings are doing the chores themselves. Appliances seem to be minimal, but perhaps we could say that is due to travel constraints.
Interested on thoughts on this subject.
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Post by skywalker on Jul 20, 2012 21:52:40 GMT -6
If the beings really are so far ahead of us would we even be able to recognize their machines? They may be so far advanced that they could appear to be alive, or to be something entirely different from anything we would recognize. Some people have even suggested that the beings themselves are artificial.
I have also read reports that seem to describe the few machines and tools the beings do use as being very primitive...or at least that is the way they seem to the people seeing them. It could just be that they don't understand exactly what they are seeing. That would be understandable considering the vast difference in intelligence between the two species.
If a member of a primitive tribe living on an uncivilized island somewhere were to see a laptop or computer chip they probably would not be very impressed with it. They probably wouldn't even begin to imagine what the things were really capable of.
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Post by sunbow on Jul 21, 2012 7:27:37 GMT -6
I understand that a simple wand could be an intelligent nano-tech device with powers we could not comprehend. Travis Walton did report a table of strange instruments and a device over his chest. Others have reported having a helmet put over their head. Some of the medical procedures seem like they involve complex devices, though still not miraculous, like they need needles instead of just beaming out samples or something.
It is the fact that people report things that seem simple and that the beings do things that seem like they do not rely on machines when they could. I wonder of they are at peace with intelligent machines or if they avoid them, prefering their own senses. Are they medical intuitive?
In another thread, several people thought their minds had the characteristics of living beings with feeling and not Intelligent Machines, but then how advanced would machines get in a billion year of evolving at a rate exponentially greater than biology?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2012 9:19:48 GMT -6
That's very possible sunbow.
The thing that keeps going through my mind though is what Jim Sparks said. He said that the little ones are "worker bees"- and they are partially artificial and partially biological. He said that the taller ones are true aliens- advanced biological beings.
I suppose I'm just sort of clinging to what he said and accepting it as fact- although I don't want to believe a lot of the other stuff he has said- that part really does honestly make sense to me...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2012 9:43:09 GMT -6
Well..what we observe..is then interpreted by our individual brains. Someone else looking at the same thing (especially if it's not a common thing) might come up with a different set of information from the brain. Something we've never come up against has to have some comparison or we can't describe it and we can only compare to what we're familiar with. Because I've seen Lord of the Rings..I might describe an alien as looking like an 'elf' while someone else might see their lab technician Bob because they don't watch movies. We really are swayed by our mental libraries. Since I saw no external sex organs or a naval..I've always tended to think they were constructs but I'm not so sure anymore because of the intense mental capability. They definitely come with a 'whammy'.
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Post by sunbow on Jul 22, 2012 17:03:02 GMT -6
If the smaller ones are drones, they may be like Bees, where different diet yields different classes of beings and as drones, they may not need sex organs. Belly buttons are based on womb growth, but if they come from eggs, they would not have belly buttons either. Alien, being so far out of our mental library, makes it hard to interpret out perceptions.
Jim Sparks is an interesting case. While he has an air of being truthful, some of what he reports is just too nonsensical for me to accept. Like converting english alphabet to an alien one: why would telepathic beings need a script and more to the point, why would it match one to one with english. either it was an absurd task given to him, or he has a very jaded mental picture of what really occurred (everything is a screen memory, not just the seeing of the being before time loss), or he is just plain making it up. My biggest issue is that he claims countless encounters where he remembers everything clearly.
At the same time, it does seem like machines, even ones clothed in biology, would be very good at space travel.
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