Avi Loeb: Consciousness, UAPs, Jacques Vallée
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Avi Loeb is a cosmologist at Harvard who founded the Galileo Project.
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LINKS MENTIONED:
Avi Loeb's previous TOE appearance: • Astonishing UFO Revelations of Avi Lo...
The Galileo Project (Harvard): https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galil...
Physics and Consciousness Contest: • Physics & Consciousness Contest ($1k ...
Sal Pais: • Unlocking the Secrets: Salvatore Pais...
Stephon Alexander on TOE: • The Autodidactic Universe & String Th...
John Vervaeke on TOE: • John Vervaeke: Psychedelics, Evil, & ...
Iain McGilchrist on TOE: • Iain McGilchrist: The Self, Conscious...
Avi Loeb's Medium Post: / avi-loeb
Ukrainian UAP Study: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.11215
Bruce Fenton's Study: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Announcements (on Greer, and more)
00:08:32 What's the Galileo Project been up to?
00:13:53 Avi found the first interstellar object already
00:20:58 Local standard of rest (important concept more should know about)
00:37:11 Exactly how the Galileo Project searches for UAPs
00:55:21 Why is there stigma in academia about aliens?
01:12:16 The problem with theoretical physics
01:22:26 Physics of how NASA helped identify an interstellar object
01:29:44 Jacques Vallée using the Galileo Project to test if UFOs come from alternate universes
01:34:56 Ukrainian UAPs (analyzing the paper)
01:36:07 Skin Walker (placing Galileo Project observatories there)
01:39:23 Galileo Project studying USOs (unidentified submerged objects)
01:44:09 Avi reveals why the gov't doesn't disclose higher resolution videos of UFOs
01:53:59 Science will need to be revamped in order to study intelligent life
01:57:56 Consciousness and Buber's "It" vs. "You"
02:00:11 The craft themselves may be conscious
02:03:55 CE5 and the Galileo Project using it to induce contact
02:10:10 Hessdalen lights
02:11:00 Dark Universes and Dark Life
02:13:51 Black Holes birth new Universes
02:15:59 Time travelling life forms and the Eternal "You"
02:26:09 What does Stephen Wolfram bring to the Galileo Project?
02:27:29 Bruce Fenton's paper on Australasian Tektites
02:28:20 Avi's views have changed after talking with Lue, Jacques, Wolfram, etc.
02:31:21 Variable Speed of Light theories
02:32:20 Dirac's large number hypothesis
02:34:40 Pros and cons of peer review, Arxiv, and Vixra
02:38:49 The dogmas of cosmology
02:43:23 Avi's paranormal experiences
02:45:17 Metamaterial experts on the Galileo Project
02:45:57 Garry Nolan's comments on consciousness and the phenomenon
02:48:00 Turing Test and sentience
02:56:33 Changes to academic research to allow for more risks
03:04:09 Advice for keeping your creativity while young
03:06:17 More closing announcements (Sal Pais, TOE Manual, ...)
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