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Jesse Michels

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

You have elite parapsychology programs at every university in the United States.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

Not every university, but a lot of them.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

So like you have like Wash U had something in the 60s.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

You had Stanford Research Institute, which literally like housed the CIA psychic spy program.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

You had the Princeton Engineering and Anomalous Research Lab, which was started by Bob John, who was dean of their general engineering school and was like a plasma propulsion guy.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

He was well-respected in his scientific accomplishments outside of parapsychology.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

So you had UCLA had one right here.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

So you had a lot of these elite universities looking into parapsychology and basically looking at whether the mind interacted with what are conventionally thought of as random quantum mechanical things, phenomena.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

So things like radioactive isotope decay,

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

a photon bouncing around a little box or whatever, or, you know, you could do like a double slit experiment where you have a 50-50 expectation of one slit or the other slit, you know, if an observer is present or whatever.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And basically, so you have like a known statistical distribution, you hook that up to these random, or sorry, to these basic computers, binary computers that produce ones and zeros.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

So say slit...

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

you know, A or left slit is like, you know, that's a one, slit B is like, you know, a zero or whatever.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And you have an observer present and you see if there's some sort of observational effect on, again, you're seeing it on a graphical interface, but it's tied to something that's conventionally thought of as random in quantum mechanics.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

So it's essentially a perfect digital coin flip.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And within an expected standard deviation, you expect a 50-50 split between ones and zeros over a long enough timescale.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And you talk to anybody that was actually in these programs, and again, they're at elite universities.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

These guys are academics and women are academics.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

They're not like quacky.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And all of them, all of them, without fail, like I...