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  • Store
  • The Team
  • Power of the Mind
  • The Ancients
  • Extraterrestrial Life
  • The Afterlife
  • The Numbers
  • New Era
  • Alternative Theories
  • The Sparknotes
  • Evolution by Imagination
  • Aliens we can agree on
  • Mind, Body, Spirit
  • Knowledge is Power
  • Religion
  • God
  • Allegory of the Cave
  • Psychedelics
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  • Nikola Tesla
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Aliens We Can Agree On

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You don't have to believe in little green dudes or inter-dimensional entities to believe in other intelligent life on earth. While I personally like to indulge myself and hear out various reports and personal accounts I understand that this is a line some people don't want to cross. So let's discuss some aliens we can all agree on. We are living on a beautiful planet flying through hyperspace and from a slightly different perspective we are all aliens. You're an alien. I'm an alien. Dolphins are aliens. Octopuses are aliens. Chimpanzees are aliens and even mushrooms are aliens. In this section I want to throw some credit to the other species we coexist on this earth with (that definitely 100% exist).



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Dolphins

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Let's start with dolphins. For the last few hundred years the scientific community has viewed language as a purely human quality. We believed that the ability to articulate complex thought is what makes humans so much smarter than everyone else. Both of these assumptions are beginning to crumble under the test of time. Are we the only species on earth that uses complex language to communicate with one another? Are we even the smartest species on earth? Current research being done on dolphins suggests that the answer to both these questions might be no. For one, a dolphin's brain is actually larger than the average human brain. A bottlenose dolphin has a brain weighing 1600 grams compared to the average human brain weighing 1300 grams. While much of a dolphins brain is necessary just to continuously swim through currents and other oceanic conditions, they have demonstrated a wide array of other intelligent behavior. Dolphin's hunting method is one example that proves an advanced level of innovation, co-operation, and creative problem solving. The dolphins go into shallow waters and slap their tail against the ocean floor to cause silt to cloud the waters. They use this method of clouding the water to circle schools of fish and then they slowly close the circle in on their prey. Eventually the fish are so confused and trapped that they jump out of the murky water to get a better view of their surroundings. What they find above the water is a bunch of dolphins with open mouths waiting for them. Clever huh? Check out the video below to watch them in action.

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Dolphin's communication is another indication that they are much more intelligent than we give them credit for. John Lily lead a research team to help discern the level of intelligent thought that dolphins were capable of communicating. Lily was a trained physician with a background in neuroscience and he quickly became fixated on his cetacean subjects. Lily was convinced that dolphins were "just as intelligent as humans" and he became obsessed with overcoming the communication barrier between our two species. Interestingly, Jon Lily actually found that dosing the dolphins with LSD caused them to be extremely talkative which proved to be very useful in decoding the dolphin language. John Lily also believed that humans should master interspecies communication with other intelligent life on earth before we made an effort to speak with intelligent extraterrestrials. Lily was quoted saying, “Before our man in space program becomes too successful, it may be wise to spend some time, talent, and money on research with the dolphins [which] may be a group with whom we can learn basic techniques of communicating with really alien intelligent life forms”. Lily passed away before figuring out how to conclusively bridge the communication gap but he concluded that the sounds made by dolphins constituted a complex language that humanity was only just beginning to understand. Maybe in our lifetime someone will fulfill his work and successfully achieve interspecies communication. And maybe the first thing they will say is, "Hey assholes, get your shit out of our ocean".

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Check out these dolphins on the hunt

Inside the quest to talk with dolphins

Hear from the dolphins themselves

Octopuses

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Another species whose intelligence should not be undermined is the octopus. Octopuses (the correct plural of octopus) are extremely clever creatures. Recent research has indicated that they are capable of using tools, solving puzzles, learning from observation, and even holding consistent long-term personalities. While the octopus brain does not compare to humans or dolphins by mass they do have us beat in one category, quantity. Octopuses actually have nine brains! They have one brain located in their head region and another eight brains delegated to each tentacle. One consistent story demonstrating octopus intelligence is that of octopuses escaping their cages. In many cases octopuses have been reported taking the lid off their aquarium's cage and using their tentacles to hoist themselves free. One such octopus named Inky snuck out of his tank at the National Aquarium of New Zealand and made a successful dash to freedom. Octopuses have the ability to survive outside of water as long as their skin remains wet and after squeezing through the top of his tank, Inky slithered across the deserted aquarium floor and shimmied down a 6-inch-wide (15 centimeters) drainpipe that led directly to the sea. Inky's breakout came as no surprise to marine biologists who study these natural escapologists. "They are curious, inquisitive animals," said Roger Hanlon, a senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts (3). Another curious octopus adding to the lore surrounding octopodes was Paul, the animal oracle. Don't ask me how but Paul the octopus managed to correctly predict 12 out of 14 games in the 2010 Fifa World Cup. Paul the Octopus was so precise in his predictions that he actually received death threats from German fans and had to be offered state protection.

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This page was intended for incredible animals originating on earth but it's worth mentioning that many scientists question octopuses true origins. One research team recently sequenced the entire octopus genome and found that their genetic makeup is extremely unique and unlike any other known sea creatures on earth. Octopuses have 33,000 genes, roughly 10,000 more than a human. This alone sets it apart from any other invertebrate in the world. Scientists also found that octopuses have a similar set of genes to those found in humans, that make up a neural network in their brains, which accounts for their quick ability to adapt and learn. We also share a large brain, closed circulatory system, and eyes with an iris, retina, and lens. All of these independently developed in another species vastly different from our own mammal origins (4). Another unique trait that octopuses were capable of was the ability to improve on its own genetic code. This is common in humans and other animals, but the ability at which the octopus can edit its own RNA is particularly impressive. They are able to adapt their nerves in order to withstand the extreme cold of the deep ocean. A group of 33 researchers recently went so far as to propose that octopuses might actually have arrived on earth on a meteorite. While I confess this theory seems somewhat absurd it is worth at least considering. The concept of panspermia is a very viable scientific possibility and it is conceivable that cryopreserved eggs may have traveled to Earth millions of years ago and hatched into life. I think it is worth mentioning that according to the Hawaiian creation myth, our universe comes from the wreckage of another, earlier universe and the only creatures that survived from that alien universe are Octopuses. Who knows but it's all a little weird right?

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An octopus intelligence test

"Aliens of the Deep Sea"

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