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.There are a number of pathways by which we can approach the subject of how Earthside knowledge of MIND would stack up against similar kinds of knowledge developed by life forms elsewhere in the cosmos.
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<br>Of course there is yet no absolute certainty that extraterrestrial entities equipped with minds do exist. Thus, in order to proceed, one has to imagine, speculate, or hypothesize that they do.
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<br>The principle justification for making such an effort is that IF mind-developed species do exist elsewhere in the universe, then perhaps our own human species emanating or traveling from Earth could encounter them, or perhaps those species emanating or traveling from some cosmic elsewhere might encounter ours.
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<br>It is by considering the ways and means of such ?traveling? that a very significant situational problem can stand revealed: The species that first achieves the traveling capabilities would be considered ?advanced? by those species that had not yet achieved anything along such lines.
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<br>Something now depends on what the ?advanced? connotation is thought to refer to. It is clear that Earth people seem justified in thinking in terms of advanced technology that bestows the capabilities of negotiating deep cosmic reaches of space. But this thinking principally refers to the 3-dimensional contexts of physical space and whatever matter and energy is involved in it.
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<br>On Earth, the idea that ET technology would be advanced is arrived at by comparison with Earth-based technology that is neither commensurate to nor on a match with ET space-travel capabilities.
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<br>We do not know, for certain, what such ET technology might consist of. But it can be hypothesized that perhaps some ET civilization achieved the necessary space-travel capabilities in the terms of 3-dimensional physicality.
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<br>It is clear that Earth people have not yet matched the ET capability. And so the ET capability must be seen as technologically advanced in comparison to Earth?s space technology ? and especially so IF any evidence for ET space-travel and arrivals in near-Earth proximity can be discovered.
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<br>ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IMPLIES THE EXISTENCE OF ADVANCED MINDS
<br>The foregoing seems to hold water, but it does so only to a certain degree, and then only with regard to a physico-energetic technology brought into existence within 3-dimensional matter, energy, and space.
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<br>Within their specific materialistic contexts, ideas concerning a physical-energetic space technology are sufficiently rational, and so confidence is placed in such materialistic ideas by the conventional sciences and by UFOlogists alike.
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<br>But one of the implications of this is that Earth people will tend to interpret ET via Earth-based ideas of a physico-energetic technology - in other words, via 3-dimensional equipment.
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<br>However, just behind this physical, 3-dimensional interpretation is a rather unavoidable reality: no technology can come into existence in the absence of minds to innovate it. Even physical 3-dimensional technology does not magically produce itself.
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<br>If, therefore, one hypothesizes (a) the existence of ET advanced technology, one is also supposing (b) the real existence of ET advanced minds that innovated and produced their technology.
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<br>As indicated above, the idea that something is ?advanced? is arrived at by comparing two relatively similar things and finding that one of them performs and produces far better, and perhaps amazingly so, than the other one.
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<br>Implicit in this comparing, however, are what might be referred to as information and knowledge packages. Things do not of and in themselves become advanced or inferior with respect to each other unless some kind of function or activity is established within their perspectives.
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<br>For example, the possibility of planetary and stellar space travel could be hypothesized by any number of ET civilizations, and, indeed, this notion has even emerged on Earth. In this sense, the basic hypothesis of space travel would probably be relatively similar everywhere in the universe.
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<br>However, AFTER the hypothesis is established, THEN comes the universal reality of what information and knowledge packages are required to convert the hypothesizing into a functional activity whereby space travel is actually achieved.
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<br>And, one may as well add, achieved not merely in the light of experimental attempts to do so, but with sustainable and predictable certainty.
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<br>MIND DEALS WITH INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE PACKAGES
<br>Via the foregoing considerations, it can appear that the real make-break point between any recognizable advanced or inferior status of something has to do with the existence of minds that can deal with information and knowledge packages.
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<br>Such are, of course, the workhorses of mind, so much so that if mind does not fundamentally deal with information and knowledge packages, then it is rather difficult (1) to identify what it does deal with, and (2) to comprehend why it is even neede...
