As of 14h00 Sunday 1 September , the more-or-less final version of this post here appears. Only inadvertent typos that have escaped my tired eyes need be correctedβ¦]. This year, unlike last , I attended only those talks, keynote and plenary, that touched on the work here at the Skunkworks: Dr.
Peters fingers specifically the conflation of biological evolution and technological progress, the belief, assumption, or presumption that the longer a species has been around the more technologically sophisticated it will be a conflation echoed reflexively by Kevin Knuth who referred to the evolution of technologically-advanced societies in my brief conversation with him after his presentation.
Moreover, the belief that technoscience will solve the problems industrialization and technology have unleashed and that, therefore, advanced extraterrestrial civilizations will have solutions for our most pressing environmental problems is subjected to scrutiny and found wanting. Basically, Denzler laid out her version of the Interdimensional Hypothesis, the contention that UAP and encounter experiences ultimately stem not from an extraterrestrial source but from one originating in another dimension.
She ended her talk, urging researchers to study these Nonhuman Intelligences not as mere stories and beliefs but as real entities, arguing that if we only ever studied whales in terms of their effects on culture, as merely cultural phenomena regardless of their reality, we would never have learned what marine biologists have about them.
Phenomenologically more-or-less, phenomenology being a variegated school of thought consciousness is a relation , being always intentional. Happily, the response to my comments confirmed that, at least, the complexity of, if not confusions around, the topic had been a matter of discussion in the workshop.
