- Where are the aliens?
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Where are the aliens?
Whaahahaaa. Go read the paper. Grok thinks I'm right!😋
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Where are the aliens?
It's time to come clean. As you guys know I recently had an insight that changed my mind! LOL! That doesn't happen often. But It was no ordinary insight! It was the final missing piece of a natural Philosophy (AKA Physics) problem. The character of the problem is prospectively near the terminus the system I had in mind. Familiarity with the epistemic arc indicated that I was near the end for a while! But I was beginning to think the solution was an infinite regress. In my book that starting out worse than you began. To cut a long story short the insight showed up on Canadian Thanks Giving in a social setting. Something happened that convinced me that my broader thesis was for want of a better term, correct. The story is hilarious but respecting privacy I cant tell it. Anyway I'm no longer in a doxastic state with low credence. I can only describe myself now as a true believer with a healthy dose of scientific skepticism but when I say true believer I mean if there is another planet out there (and statistically speaking there just plane is (superabundants) where a precise mirror of the niche we occupy on earth exist then the species that occupies that niche is human. the more exact the niche match the closer the human resemblance. Convergence explicitly states nature comes up with the same best solution every time. Even in unrelated species Two identical niches two identical species. Even if they are separated by hundreds or thousand of light years. Remarkably this isn't that far from my, 'there are no aliens stance' since I always say you cannot beat credible eye witness testimony and there is, in fairness, plenty of that. But I always that us from the not to distant future is fare more likely than us from a 100 million light years away. Anyway I've been grappling with a head scratcher in Kant since I graduated 25 years ago and I though I already had the same problem since I was 12. Studying philosophy just proved to me that the problem was real. And writing my Grad thesis on the problem proved it was real because I got a 1st. It turns out Academia doesn't like the problem and wishes it would go away because they think its intractable. Writing about it just gets you in trouble. Even if you solve it. I know because I just had the paper I wrote about it rejected by PhilSci-Archive and got ignored arXiv despite Grok telling me it is an original and coherent critique. Grok got it and perhaps some of you know that I am referring to the postulated "thing in itself". What could that have to do with aliens you ask. Rather a lot as it turns out. Kant is at the end of the historical arc of western philosophy. Everything after his CPR is Flailing. Likewise GR is the end of the large scale universe epistemological arc. Sure they spent a few decades just filling the empirical gaps and ironing out the wrinkles but they are definitely flailing now with recent anomalous discoveries. Pissing their pants actually, truth be know! QM stands alone as the most complete least anomalies theory ever. I say it's just complete. There is nothing more to it so they are kinda flailing with TEO's right now and have done for at least 70 years with no success. Everything is flailing except Evo/Devo. THat's flourishing for now. but not that much growing room. The Evo/Devo stuff wasn't really that interesting to me until recently but I have a pretty sharp grip of GR and QM for a layman. Kant underpins them all and that stuff I know well. Somehow I always thought there was a missing link between Kants Critique of Pure Reason and the Natural philosophy (todays Physics). The experience I had on thanks giving last year revealed that missing link to me rite large. Painfully obvious and then the implications! Earth shattering! Its a big claim but it reconciles General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics. I know you are all thinking. Martin was right! That guy belongs in straitjacket. But its out in the wild on X so the rubber meets the road so to speak. if you are interested, and It is free! If its nothing its a least 10 page tour de force of Kants Transcendental Unity of Apperception. If I'm right you can say you had the pleasure of knowing the 21st centuries Albert Einstein and tell everyone the guy was a schmuck.🤣 Here's the link to the X post
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Where are the aliens?
It's a question of Niche. If the niche is the same the species is the same. It's like hand in glove. That's why there are no inter species, spices. No viable niche. no viable species. nature Abhors a vacuum and fine tuning orders niche's. There are Cats and dogs out there but no catdogs. The system is rigged.
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Where are the aliens?
Part of the reason I changed my mind is EVO/DEVO and convergence evolution. There is ontological trouble in there for blind natural selection that smells exactly like the ontological trouble I've always been suspicious of. The truth is out there! LOL!
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Where are the aliens?
There going to be sorely disappointed. I'm not human so we've got the upper hand!
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Where are the aliens?
my opinion has shifted. I've had an epistemic brake through that give me solid if not irrefutably ontological repositioning akin to falling down a whole that the universe is teaming with ET. We may have already seen them but we might not even know. I may have even seen one myself. My wife might be one of them! (that makes sense) There biology will be as EVO/DEVO predicts without variance. It's a fact. done like dinner! i've paradigm shifted and I haven't had to throw the baby out with the bath water either! LOL! you win Martin. I take it all back. Are you one of them?
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50th Anniversary of the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Yeah, those words cut right to the soul. I always get a shiver when I hear that line. One of the greatest songs off all time.
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Where are the aliens?
I'm in a doxastic state with low credence.🥸
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UFO sighting
It look great but the system are just ripped off from the Asobo 787 and it way over priced guaranteed.
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Where are the aliens?
One might think it's because I'd adhere to the Rare Earth hypothesis which doesn't rule out simple life elsewhere just complex or intelligent life (not rule out, just make extremely statistically unlikely). But that's not why. It runs contrary to the roll of necessity in my metaphysical world view but I'm not married to it. However the complete absence of any empirical evidence that there is life anywhere other than earth is enough for me to stick with my robust world view. However that is not to say that I don't believe the eye witness testimony of credible individuals notwithstanding the possibility that they could be lying for whatever reason. However the benefit of the doubt is also mandatory here. So if indeed the instances of advanced technology far beyond known human capabilities are real, I am far more likely to believe they are our so called decedents breaching the vale between their conventional chronological time and ours much like we might recognize a ghost if we ever saw one as our so called ancestors.
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Where are the aliens?
I don't believe that there is life anywhere else in the universe except on earth! 🤣
- Reflections on 737...recalling the first ever B737 flight...
- Reflections on 737...recalling the first ever B737 flight...
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Antimatter drive not so far away!
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