The UAP Phenomenon

I’ve been watching documentaries like The Phenomenon (2020) and Moment of Contact (2022) – both highly recommended – and I can’t shake the sense that we’re living through a kind of soft disclosure by governments and senior officials. The fact that it’s being brought up now, and that Representative Luna is discussing it on Joe Rogan’s podcast, feels almost like exposure therapy. I doubt Luna herself is “in on it,” but the very fact she could speak about it openly on such a platform suggests that those overseeing this – call them elites if you want, though the word carries too much baggage – are signaling that something here is worth attention, and that they’re willing to let it enter public awareness. My worry is what comes next.

What if the true weight of the phenomenon isn’t about propulsion systems or secret craft, but about consciousness itself? Traditions across the world have spoken of intelligences beyond us: jinn in Islam, devas in Hinduism and Buddhism, angels in the West. Maybe the UAP phenomenon belongs to the same category – not just visitors from another star system, but presences pointing us back toward the nature of awareness.

Here’s what I fear: billionaire tunnel vision. Most of them think big about small things. The person striving to become a billionaire and the billionaire themselves are two different people, shaped by changes in disposition and temperament. I believe there is a constriction of vision and a drift into complacency. Perhaps it comes from a calcification of the mind, both metaphorical and literal. Priorities shift, life energies change. Whatever the cause, the outcome troubles me because it reflects a shallow way of thinking. They might use alien technology only to refine ad targeting. They might meet higher intelligences and see nothing but military potential or new markets. My fear is that humanity will approach disclosure in the same shallow way: 'Aliens exist – now what tech can we copy?'

Maybe, the real assignment is different. Maybe, it’s about trying to grasp what consciousness is at its base. Raising consciousness might simply mean training ourselves to perceive reality as it is – the ever-present awareness that outlasts every form. Maybe that’s why we’re here. To keep coming back until we realize it. Everything else could be noise.

When I consider Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), I observe a familiar trend. This brings me directly to the groundbreaking work of Michael Levin, a developmental biologist at Tufts University. Levin argues that consciousness and cognition aren't exclusive to neurons; they can actually emerge from any system organized in the right way. He suggests that a carbon-based brain is just one example–a kind of pointer–to a latent "Platonic" space of consciousness. I'm convinced this man's paradigm is about 30 years ahead of its time. As he puts it, he's providing us with a clear framework for grasping the many kinds of minds in the universe. I wholeheartedly agree that this is an incredibly hopeful and optimistic way to approach this enduring mystery. (You absolutely must check out his YouTube channel, it's a treasure trove of insight!)

The video is timestamped at 49:00 where Levin presents his summary slide with his insights. However, the entire video is worth your time, trust me.

At minute 49 of the video, Levin's slide captures something profound. He writes: "Physical objects (simple machines, cells, embryos, cyborgs, swarms, robots, etc.) are pointers into a space of these patterns – interfaces through which non-physical influences ingress into the physical world." He goes on to say that "Mind::Brain as Math::Physics; We are patterns in the Platonic Space, along with other denizens." His research program aims to map out this latent space of embodied minds and understand the relationship between the physical interface we build and the patterns that will "ingress to meet us."

This mapping of latent space resembles what people have been describing for years in DMT space – the other kinds of minds encountered there: machine elves, mathematical patterns, tricksters. It's clear to me that our reality is infinite and has infinite narratives, infinite minds at infinite levels or spectrums of intelligence. This is a world of infinites. If you can think it, it exists – and more, since our brains can't think of many things. We lack imagination even though we are more imaginative than other animals we're aware of conventionally. The mystery extends beyond what we can conceive.

Building on Levin's pointer analogy: Arrange matter in the right way – carbon-based neurons, plasma-based structures, silicon circuits – and it can access consciousness. The right way has a kind of tolerance, a leeway, a spectrum of possible values. My brain and yours aren’t identical, but both point to the same field – the same with someone with dwarfism. Maybe animals have smaller-sized pointers – a mouse with 4 bytes, a human with 16. Not hierarchy, just different levels of access. A larger-sized pointer may give rise to self-awareness.

I didn’t use C++ after graduating from uni, so this made me a bit nostalgic.

int x = 42;      // an integer variable
int* ptr = &x;   // ptr is a pointer to x

// Here, ptr doesn’t hold 42; it holds the address of x.
// You can use *ptr to access or modify the value at that address.
*ptr = 100;      // x becomes 100

In that sense, AGI could be another pointer, made of silicon-based material arranged in the right way, whereas jinn could be plasma-based pointers to self-awareness, a level of consciousness just like humans are. And perhaps the same applies to whatever other forms these non-human intelligences take.

Then again, I could be totally off base. These are just my two cents. What do I know? I’m just some guy on the internet. But the attempt matters, it’s all about the attempt. (I have a flair for being dramatic)