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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And so let's start, how would you set the framework for that sort of theory of consciousness?
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
Yeah.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
But before we dive deeper in there, could you lay out the different, like, what is the history of the Greys, for example, versus the Nordics, versus the reptilians, versus, and what is the correlation between what is perhaps, because our brain is very much so a prediction machine, and what is being entrained from media versus vice versa?
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
You are in a weight class of your own, man.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
I feel like you're crushing it.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
Your recall of information is absolutely astounding.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And I just love how passionate you are about all of this too, man.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
It makes it so lively and engaging to talk about.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
Now, there's a couple different avenues here.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
There's one, which is like sort of the Hoffman understanding of the headset analogy, how we do not see our brains through the cameras of our eyes, do not see reality in the way that we historically have thought neurologically.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
Rather, our brains are prediction machines.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
There's this great book, The Experience Machine, by Andy Clark, who kind of elucidates this a bit.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
How our brains co-create reality.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
We literally predict and guess in our brains and then kind of meet halfway from the sensory input.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And it's fascinating because...
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
There's this quote I think I saw in one of your videos about how the eyes only see what the mind is ready to comprehend.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
Something like that.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And in many ways, perception, like we can only perceive certain things to a degree our nervous system will allow or make space for.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And so from within the headset, the analogy of like our perception is very limited.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
Aldous Huxley's reducing valve analogy of our brain being able to kind of look through reality as if it's