Psychological Warfare
What if I told you telekinesis is real? What if I then said, scientist had proved it? What if I then said I could teach you how? Wouldn’t you be interested? Then, after getting you all excited, I said, but only virtually. Wouldn’t you be a little disappointed? Moving stuff with your mind? That superpower may finally be here, By Loukia Papadopoulos, in her article for Interesting Engineering did exactly that. She isn’t informing you of studies conducted by Dean Radin that shows mind over a matter to have a statistical relevance of 6 sigma. She isn’t discussing Uri Geller, the Israeli-British illusionist, though the thumb nail photo screams ‘let’s bend spoons with out minds!’ She is discussing brain interfaces allowing for manipulating virtual environments, and controlling smart products, like robots, nanites, and smart materials. Cool, but not genuine telekinesis.
The headline was likely innocent enough. I suppose Loukia Papadopoulos was going for humor. No one truly believes telekinesis is possible, so only someone like myself might frown when the truth is discovered. Some of the comments suggest people think she meant exactly what the headline said… So, I am left wondering if they read the article, or read the headline and went no further. Once you have confirmation of your world view, why read further?
Confirmation bias is a real thing. Comments should be allowed in every article so we can have a sampling of what people really think.
Is click bait bad science, or just buyer beware economics? Product placement works. There is a real science behind getting people to buy products they don’t need. We are all susceptible. Even the people who know the science buy things they don’t need.
2020, life on Venus was suddenly possible. In 2021, Life on Venus Is Impossible because of Lack of Water, Study Suggests, Scientific American. January 2022, Life could be thriving in the clouds of Venus… Round and round we go, where we’ll stop...
Fit to Print
It’s not a new thing I am illuminating. Perhaps you have noticed trends in things you follow, like multiple articles with two disparate positions, which leaves you doing math about the preponderance of articles in favor of a certain position being the measure. Some things we can’t even discuss without threat of censor. Go figure.
Scientists make major breakthrough in search for aliens — and its first discovery is a disappointment, by Andrew Griffin is an interesting proposal of why it’s unlikely that we will find alien life. Leaning towards despair. One could flip that to reflect: you know we should take better care of here, because out there seems a bit harsh. Then come the next article, Is ET a ROBOT? Astronomer Royal says alien civilisations may have already transitioned from ‘flesh and blood’ to machines — and humans will eventually do the same, by By Victoria Allen, Daily mail… Really long title… Cool and scary? There are certainly days I wish I were an android body.
I didn’t misspell civilization. That’s how the English spell it. Are we ever fully in congruence? So, even though the solar weather at Proxima Centauri is kind of rough, would it be too rough for androids? We are definitely going the android route. Bending materials with your mind, above- well, that takes you to ideas of Elon Musk’s neural link, and potentially being downloaded. If they make it sound cool, you’d sign up for that, right? Elon is going to take our brains and Mars…
Speaking of Mars, is this conditioning? Perseverance Mars rover spots weird snake-head rock and balancing boulder (photo), by Mike Wall… Is he appealing to our hope we’re going to find something soon, something on Mars that shows us that ‘we’re not alone.’ Or we weren’t alone. Pareidolia is a real thing. Leading your article with weird snake-head probably doesn’t prime a mind to see what you want them to see.
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Doorways on Mars. Face on Mars. No subsequent ruined photo will make people unsee what has been forever placed in the mind of man.
Repeating fast radio bursts from space are mysterious. This one is even weirder, By Ashley Strickland; is she telling us to get ready? Can we skip her and go right to source: Head of Russian Space Agency Talks UFOs,
The head of the Russian space agency recently shared his thoughts on the UFO phenomenon, including the possibility that Earth is being studied by extraterrestrials. Dmitry Rogozin reportedly made the intriguing comments during an interview with a Russian media outlet over the weekend.
Put that into juxtaposition with NASA looking into UFO/UAPs, and the head of NASA responding to “are there aliens?:”
So, hit and run. YES, Virgina, there are aliens, but the universe is soooooo big, you’re probably not going to meet one, much less hear from one…
Message from an Extraterrestrial Civilization to Rethinking Origin of the Solar System (The Galaxy Report)… I am not really sure what to make of this. Fast Radio Bursts might be interstellar beacons alerting us to where aliens are? Fast radio burst, or FRBs… Wait a minute, the new Chinese telescope that is most recently online, it’s called FAST… China says it may have received signals from aliens…
Didn’t Nicola Tesla say he discovered signals from aliens? Scientist have yet to rule out human radio sources in the Chinese discovery, “YET…” YET is such a big, and hopeful word. You might almost think history isn’t what we know…
The World’s First Temple is Older than the Pyramids and the Stonehenge, by Jax Hudur… Oh. Why aren’t ancient sites being better studied and protected? Is history important anymore?
A Beautiful Mind
There is thing that’s well known in mental health about how double binds might trigger schizophrenic episode. An example of a double bind is a mom buys two shirts exactly alike for her son, with the exception of color. Let’s say blue and red. The next day son is wearing the blue shirt. Mom asks, “You don’t like the red shirt?” Unable to show gratitude for the shirts, and unable to explain why the blue was chosen, the mind less resilient in solving complex conundrums fractures.
Being able to dismiss nonsense is a human gift that allows people to function despite of paradoxes, real or imagined. In the movie, A Beautiful Mind, schizophrenia allowed young physicist John Nash to solve a complex math problem. The movie is a based on the life of a real person, which gives you hope that you can have mental health problems and still function in society in esteemed ways. It is unclear, and maybe unnecessary to know if the epiphany leads to initial psychotic break, but if you track the movie from there, John Nash was finding hidden message everywhere. No reasonable, rational, healthy mind would make the same connections he did...
Which makes it funny so many people bought into his claims because he was smarter than the average bear. Come along, Bobo. “What are we going to do, Yogi?” The same thing we do everyday, try to take over the world… (Yes, I mix my chocolate and peanut butter…)
But now, you only need read the headlines and there seems to be overwhelming evidence something is up! It’s not like I went out of my way to find obscure articles and draw unreasonable lines between them… Granted, the preponderance of stuff I read is science based.
Take for example, Scientists Have Developed ‘Living’ Skin For Robots, And It’s Quite Something, by TESSA KOUMOUNDOUROS, which is kind of cool and kind of creepy, but in juxtaposition to Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient, by NY Times… How does one not start to make conclusions? Especially, if that thing they planted in your mind, it seems like only yesterday, was this: FACEBOOK’S ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ROBOTS SHUT DOWN AFTER THEY START TALKING TO EACH OTHER IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE…
So, we will be able to move smart materials with our minds because our minds will be imbedded in smart, android bodies with living skin?
Oh, welcome to heaven and hell, a tale of two cities in this strange, brave, new, synthetic world, and your Dreams Are Made of Pasts and Futures, by Elizaveta Solomonova Ph.D…. No foreshadowing there.
Scientists Discover “Superworms” Capable of Munching Through Plastic Waste… AHHH, damn it. Just when I though my new android body was going to be safe forever.
