Posted On: June 6, 2023

Control-System Hypothesis.

I believe there is a system around us that transcends time as it transcends space.

I remain confident that human knowledge is capable of understanding this larger reality.

I suspect that some humans have already understood it, and are showing their hand in several aspects of the UFO encounters. .

The system I am speaking of may well be able to locate itself in outer space, as some of my readers will be quick in pointing out.

Indeed it may, but its manifestations are not spacecraft in the ordinary "nuts and bolts" sense.

The UFOs are physical manifestations that cannot be understood apart from their psychic and symbolic reality. What we see in effect here is not an alien invasion.

It is a control system which acts on humans and uses humans. However, we still need to discover the source of this manifestation.

If the world around us is a world of informational events, the symbolic manifestations that surround UFO reports should be viewed as a fact of the greatest magnitude.

If we consider the physical world to be an associative universe of such informational events, consciousness is no longer simply a function which is local to the human brain. Instead, consciousness should be defined as the process by which informational associations are retrieved and traversed.

The illusion of time and space would be merely a side effect of consciousness as it traverses associations. In such a theory, apparently "paranormal'' phenomena like remote viewing and precognition would be expected, even common, and UFOs would lose much of their alien quality.

These phenomena would be natural aspects of the reality of human consciousness, and would be subject to manipulation by the human will, both consciously and unconsciously. .

In any case, these phenomena serve as a support for human ambition, a framework for human tragedy, a fabric of human dreams. We react to them in our movies, our poetry, our music, our science fiction.

And they react to us.

They are part of the control system for human evolution, like the nuclear process inside the Sun and the long-term changes in the Earth's weather.

But their effects, instead of being just physical, are also felt in our belief systems. They influence what we call our spiritual life. They affect our political institutions, our history, our culture.

If there is no time dimension as we usually assume there is, we may be traversing events by association. Modern computers retrieve information associatively.

You "evoke" the desired records by using keywords, words of power: you request the intersection of "microwave" and "headache," and you find twenty articles you never suspected existed.

Perhaps I had unconsciously posted such a request on some psychic bulletin board with the keyword "Melchizedek." If we live in the associative universe of the software scientist rather than the sequential universe of the spacetime physicist, then miracles are no longer irrational events.

The philosophy we could derive would be closer to Islamic "Occasionalism" than to the Cartesian or Newtonian universe. And a new theory of information would have to be built.

Such a theory might have interesting things to say about communication with the denizens of other physical realities.

Consider science from the outside: it is a machine for turning out knowledge.

It has worked extremely well for a while. It has given us aircraft, television, and trips to the Moon.

On the other hand, there are situations in which it is useless, because it assumes that the phenomena that are fed into it are natural and spontaneous.

If something bigger or smarter than the ordinary human mind is around, if some clever deceivers use it to feed us phenomena that have been designed to fool us by Machiavellian spies or benevolent masters, then a "scientific" investigation will be useless.

How can we find out whether or not anomalous phenomena can be dealt with in scientific terms?.

The public has two usual positions on UFOs, either "It's all nonsense," or "We are visited by creatures from another planet." Until today, the first position has been the stronger one.

A majority of the public and practically every scientist has long thought that UFOs were nonsense, and that is why there are no UFO detectives.

Now things are changing. So many people have seen strange phenomena that a new belief has been born.

Scientific opinion cannot stop this shifting of power.

Unfortunately, once disturbed from its comfortable position of rest, the public will shift to the other extreme and start believing in space visitations.

This is unavoidable. It is so reassuring to have other forms of life come here!.

They may be horrible to behold, but at least "they" know about us, "they" care about us, and "they" have gone to the trouble of coming here to see what we look like! In the naive words of a New York Times science editor, "We are not Alone!" .

There is another system. It is sending us messengers of deception.

They are not necessarily coming from nearby stars. In terms of the effect on us, it doesn't matter where they come from. I even suspect that "where" and "when" have no meaning here. How could we be alone?.

The black box of science has stopped ticking. People look up toward the stars in eager expectation. .

Receiving a visit from outer space sounds almost as comfortable as having a God. Yet we shouldn't rejoice too soon. Perhaps we will get the visitors we deserve.

Post from user sfaer at at reddit.

Posted On: June 6, 2023

Control-System Hypothesis.

I believe there is a system around us that transcends time as it transcends space.

I remain confident that human knowledge is capable of understanding this larger reality.

I suspect that some humans have already understood it, and are showing their hand in several aspects of the UFO encounters. .

The system I am speaking of may well be able to locate itself in outer space, as some of my readers will be quick in pointing out.

Indeed it may, but its manifestations are not spacecraft in the ordinary "nuts and bolts" sense.

The UFOs are physical manifestations that cannot be understood apart from their psychic and symbolic reality. What we see in effect here is not an alien invasion.

It is a control system which acts on humans and uses humans. However, we still need to discover the source of this manifestation.

If the world around us is a world of informational events, the symbolic manifestations that surround UFO reports should be viewed as a fact of the greatest magnitude.

If we consider the physical world to be an associative universe of such informational events, consciousness is no longer simply a function which is local to the human brain. Instead, consciousness should be defined as the process by which informational associations are retrieved and traversed.

The illusion of time and space would be merely a side effect of consciousness as it traverses associations. In such a theory, apparently "paranormal'' phenomena like remote viewing and precognition would be expected, even common, and UFOs would lose much of their alien quality.

These phenomena would be natural aspects of the reality of human consciousness, and would be subject to manipulation by the human will, both consciously and unconsciously. .

In any case, these phenomena serve as a support for human ambition, a framework for human tragedy, a fabric of human dreams. We react to them in our movies, our poetry, our music, our science fiction.

And they react to us.

They are part of the control system for human evolution, like the nuclear process inside the Sun and the long-term changes in the Earth's weather.

But their effects, instead of being just physical, are also felt in our belief systems. They influence what we call our spiritual life. They affect our political institutions, our history, our culture.

If there is no time dimension as we usually assume there is, we may be traversing events by association. Modern computers retrieve information associatively.

You "evoke" the desired records by using keywords, words of power: you request the intersection of "microwave" and "headache," and you find twenty articles you never suspected existed.

Perhaps I had unconsciously posted such a request on some psychic bulletin board with the keyword "Melchizedek." If we live in the associative universe of the software scientist rather than the sequential universe of the spacetime physicist, then miracles are no longer irrational events.

The philosophy we could derive would be closer to Islamic "Occasionalism" than to the Cartesian or Newtonian universe. And a new theory of information would have to be built.

Such a theory might have interesting things to say about communication with the denizens of other physical realities.

Consider science from the outside: it is a machine for turning out knowledge.

It has worked extremely well for a while. It has given us aircraft, television, and trips to the Moon.

On the other hand, there are situations in which it is useless, because it assumes that the phenomena that are fed into it are natural and spontaneous.

If something bigger or smarter than the ordinary human mind is around, if some clever deceivers use it to feed us phenomena that have been designed to fool us by Machiavellian spies or benevolent masters, then a "scientific" investigation will be useless.

How can we find out whether or not anomalous phenomena can be dealt with in scientific terms?.

The public has two usual positions on UFOs, either "It's all nonsense," or "We are visited by creatures from another planet." Until today, the first position has been the stronger one.

A majority of the public and practically every scientist has long thought that UFOs were nonsense, and that is why there are no UFO detectives.

Now things are changing. So many people have seen strange phenomena that a new belief has been born.

Scientific opinion cannot stop this shifting of power.

Unfortunately, once disturbed from its comfortable position of rest, the public will shift to the other extreme and start believing in space visitations.

This is unavoidable. It is so reassuring to have other forms of life come here!.

They may be horrible to behold, but at least "they" know about us, "they" care about us, and "they" have gone to the trouble of coming here to see what we look like! In the naive words of a New York Times science editor, "We are not Alone!" .

There is another system. It is sending us messengers of deception.

They are not necessarily coming from nearby stars. In terms of the effect on us, it doesn't matter where they come from. I even suspect that "where" and "when" have no meaning here. How could we be alone?.

The black box of science has stopped ticking. People look up toward the stars in eager expectation. .

Receiving a visit from outer space sounds almost as comfortable as having a God. Yet we shouldn't rejoice too soon. Perhaps we will get the visitors we deserve.

Post from user sfaer at at reddit.