Hi Everyone,
In this talk, I explore the possibility that evolution advances through informational thresholds. These might be seen as points at which growing complexity gives life or intelligence entirely new abilities.
This came to me while studying about the Cambrian explosion. This happened more than half a billion years ago. It was the great development of complexity among life on this planet, following more than 3 billion years of mostly microscopic and single celled organisms. It’s when animals developed eyes, when they began to move, and to hunt, and to hide, and develop armor and spines and all the basics that characterize life today.
Basically, it allowed animals to drive one another toward even more rapid change through predator-prey competition.
Human language was another example of an informational threshold. It allowed knowledge to move between minds and grow across generations.
These were developments more than just giving more complexity. They enabled organisms to perceive reality in ways that were unavailable previously. Before eyes, light was always there. But now with eyes, animals could process light as information. Very important. This led to a change of kind, not just of degree. Same with language. A foundational change of kind that allowed knowledge to accumulate.
So, if another threshold lies ahead, it may give advanced intelligence access to things that we might struggle even to imagine: maybe aspects of quantum reality, spacetime, matter, or consciousness. Things that we currently can’t truly grasp. The information is there, but we can’t currently perceive it.
UFO technology, with its control of acceleration, inertia, transmedium movement, and perhaps perception itself, may offer a glimpse of what becomes possible after such a threshold has been crossed.
But humanity may be approaching its own threshold with a badly damaged information system. I end this talk with an observation about the Russia–Ukraine war, which shows how rival political and media systems can take the same world and construct almost opposite realities from it. Vast amounts of information have not produced a shared understanding. Instead they have given each side enough material to sustain its preferred account. You see something very similar with UAP secrecy. In this case, institutions exclude crucial evidence – then they use the resulting gaps to dismiss the phenomenon.
I suspect that humanity is building a powerful external mind through AI while losing the ability to agree on what is real. If that is true, we might carry today’s propaganda and tribal loyalties into a new age of incredible intelligence and power. I hope not, but it doesn’t seem impossible to me, at least in the short or medium term. Ultimately, I suspect that breaking through to a new level of informational complexity might make our current arguments seem irrelevant. I would like to think so.
Richard