Your brain evolved to see deep meaning in the sky. And UFOs.
What Are Psychedelic Entities?
The beings people often meet while using psychedelics resist tidy explanations.
Predictive processing frameworks for perception can explain recent drone sightings in the United States
We draw on the predictive processing theory of perception to explain why healthy, intelligent, honest, and psychologically normal people might easily misperceive lights in the sky as threatening or extraordinary objects, especially in the context of WEIRD (western, educated, industrial, rich, and democratic) societies. We argue that the uniquely sparse properties of skyborne and celestial stimuli make it difficult for an observer to update prior beliefs, which can be easily fit to observed lights. Moreover, we hypothesize that humans have likely evolved to perceive the sky and its perceived contents as deeply meaningful. Finally, we briefly discuss the possible role of generalized distrust in scientific institutions and ultimately argue for the importance of astronomy education for producing a society with prior beliefs that support veridical perception.
As UFOs go mainstream, the jury is out on what the existence of alien life might mean for religion
Steven Spielberg's new film “Disclosure Day” explores extraterrestrial life and its impact on religion. UFOs, now also called UAPs, are gaining mainstream attention.
Our Minds Are Weirder than You Think
JD Vance says aliens are ‘demons’ and details obsession with UFOs
Vice-president promises ‘to get to the bottom of’ reports of US government files about unidentified flying objects
What Is Bluesky?—A Landscape Revealed by the Diffusion Experiment - Nightflight
Studying the "atmosphere" of Bluesky: Proposing a New Research Field Called Network Perception in ATmosphere - Nightflight
subconsciousnetwork/noosphere
Noosphere is a protocol for thought; let's discover it together!
We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night Skies
Bad decisions have turned efficient technology into a driver of light pollution. There is a better way
The Shape of Knowing - The Cynefin Co
We evolved to make sense of a world that does not come with explanations attached. This is the third in a series on the trialectics. For an introduction
How Does A Blind Model See The Earth? — LessWrong
Sometimes I'm saddened remembering that we've viewed the Earth from space. We can see it all with certainty: there's no northwest passage to search f…
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life as We Don't Know It
Scientists are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings
The Demon-Haunted World
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark is a 1995 book by the astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan. In it, Sagan aims to explain the scientific method to laypeople and to encourage people to learn critical and skeptical thinking. He explains methods to help distinguish between ideas that are considered valid science and those that can be considered pseudoscience. Sagan states that when new ideas are offered for consideration, they should be tested by means of skeptical thinking and should stand up to rigorous questioning.
picture this: we're all demons, and the atmosphere is our world. haunt.at is our compendium. it assembles traces from across the atmosphere. all of you are assigned a unique color scheme, layout, and sigil based on your DID. summon your friends. summon the ops. manifest something. have fun!
haunted.at — an atmosphere compendium
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