What Would Alien Life & Intelligences Mean? | Episode 2305 | Closer To Truth

[@tuckfeem0834]

When I look at those videos, it makes me wish I had Robert as a philosophy teacher or other related subject. The interest for these topics has only begun in my later years and I’d wish some school teacher had me interested sooner. Thank you for the great content !

[@quantumpotential7639]

My nursery school teacher introduced me to the cosmos and Newtonian physics in week 2. It was way over my head at the time but the seed had been planted. And decades later, here I am. Still confused more than ever. So be thankful you haven't been confused your entire adult life.

[@gerhardmoeller774]

At ~9:30: "the barrier from nonlife to life was a barrier, but not a significant one“. What a truly preposterous statement!

[@agar1974]

Thanks to your great works.

[@xdouble00]

I just loved this episode. Thank you.

[@keithmetcalf5548]

It's RLK 😎 speaking on Extraterrestrial life 👍👍

[@coffeetalk924]

Wonderful video. Bravo 👏

[@mickeybrumfield764]

I'm glad we are wondering about such things as other forms of life. I'm also glad we are starting to come to grips with our narcissism and realize there is likely other life out there that might not be anything like ourselves. If we think about it and try to imagine life existing, that is like we are of the multi cellular variety. We would never ever be able to imagine this form of life if we didn't have a living model to work with and study. It would be beyond our imagination. I believe there are likely other forms of life that exist out there that are of the form that are beyond our current imagination. The possibilities are so vast that we can't begin to fathom them, but I'm glad we're trying.

[@100percentSNAFU]

Most likely any other intelligent life that has reached a technological phase is at least bipedal and land dwelling like we are. It may look very different, but from a purely structural standpoint, our form just works and would work well for alien life as well, in regards to the ability to move about, manipulate tools, etc. Highly intelligent aquatic life may exist as well, but unlikely it would be technological, as one astrophysicist (I don't remember which one) said "good luck smelting metal underwater". I think the science fiction squid like lifeforms and other extreme looking intelligent creatures are unlikely, they will probably at least be built somewhat similar to humans, bipedal and upright, in order to achieve any sort of technological advancement.

[@khajashaik359]

Some of my q's.. 1. If light is travelling with speed 'c' (casuality) and photon is 0 mass(but not absolute zero) and nothing can travel with speed of light, because it needs infinite energy according to Sir Einstein, then.., from where does the photon /light getting that energy from? 2. If light can be bent when space is bent, due to gravity, then why can't the time can bend? 3. If light is released in such a way that the light reflects and travel back to source (placing the mirror exactly opposite to the light source) then what happens? Does photons collide and something happens? 4. Similar to the above one, when one stood infront of mirror and see themself, isn't his himself is seeing him at the same time when he sees himself? Means the reflection is observable to the source and what place does Sir Einstein's relativity plays here and what does it explain.

[@mack8488]

Time IS bend...space time is bend....closer to a source of gravity time slows down....

[@simonhibbs887]

Energy has various different forms it can take, such as mass, or electromagnetic radiation, or momentum. These forms of energy can be converted by physical processes, such as when the electrons in an atom changes energy states and emit a photon. Some of these forms of energy have mass and others don’t. Those that have mass are called fermions and include particles such as electrons and protons. Photons have no mass. They are waves in the electromagnetic field that carry a specific amount of energy. Because they have no mass, not just very low mass but literally none, there is nothing to stop them travelling at the speed of light. You’re quite right. Time does ‘bend’ in the sense that it progresses at different rates for observers travelling relative to each other. The effect is called time dilation. In theory time does not pass for light itself, but that has no physical consequences. We observe light taking time to travel from one place to another in our own frame of reference. Therefore light reflected in a mirror arrives back at its starting point some time after it was transmitted. When a photon is reflected back, it can interfere with other photons coming from the source. This can create complex interference patterns. This is similar to throwing two stones into a calm pool at the same time and watching the ripples travelling in different directions overlap.

[@khajashaik359]

@@simonhibbs887 cool. Here's next one... As per me, light and time both are similar. Both are uni directional both bends at high gravity like black hole. There's no travelling back(Naturally, until there's no intervention). So, here's my ask.. If speed of light is 3lakh kms per sec. Now, speed of time is time taken for a photon to travel 3 lakh kms. Now what is the speed of time in vacuum where There's almost no gravity like out side of our galaxy?

[@arthurwieczorek4894]

Beyond me. And l can comment on anything.

[@arthurwieczorek4894]

​@@mack8488'...relative time slows down.' Sir, you are a genius. You must have read Einstein, and understood him. Time slows down closer to a gravitational object relative to the empty space of further away. It's like time is denser there. Now what if it were more dense? The curve is not because of the density per se. The gradual curve is due to the gradual 'change in time--space density'. HS!

[@davidrobertson2735]

Dang you landed Dawkins

[@browngreen933]

My hunch is that non-life to life is an easy step considering that it happened here on Earth when conditions were extremely harsh and inhospitable some 3.5 billion years ago.

[@tonyatkinson2210]

Agree . But the step to multicellular life much harder , and intelligent life harder still . But the step to multicellular being the hardest .

[@vulturom]

and there exists non technological humans, maybe its again another step @@tonyatkinson2210

[@apolloforabetterfuture4814]

Not a bad point. And life generally produces more complex life. I'm not sure there's intelligent life but there has to be extra terrestrial animals out there.

[@tonyatkinson2210]

@@apolloforabetterfuture4814 single celled life evolved very quickly on earth . Almost as soon as it cooled down . A few hundred million years after it formed . It was another 3.5 billion years before multicellular life evolved . Only yesterday in geological time . For the vast majority of earths life it’s been single celled . There why I think multicellular life is a difficult step .

[@deanodebo]

@@tonyatkinson2210yet there’s still single-called life. How does that work?

[@hc8379-f4f]

Fun ideas to play around with. I wonder if something does show up, either by electronic emissions, or by nearby presence, if it won't be robotic -- i.e., needing very little in resources to last a long travel time, and immune to cosmic radiation, etc. They might be simply explorer ships sending signals back to their origin, or ships no longer connected to their (destroyed) civilizations. They might be guardians of the seeds of that civilization, programmed to find another planet suitable to their propagation, and able to teach its new progeny the whole culture of that long lost civilization. But it would be robotic, able to travel an infinite length of time, with a clear, or not so clear mission. It would have the ability to communicate with us, after a period of acquaintance. Depending on the welcome, it might hang around, or depart for other destinations.

[@CaliforniaBushman]

I think the Great Filters to Technical Civilizations are: 1. The production of O2 by single celled life over almost 2 Billion Years on Earth 2. To allow for metabolism for Multicellular complex life 3. Multicellular life and O2 concentrations to exist for another Billion years to evolve sentient beings on land (non aquatic) that can build tools that make tools (with enough O2 concentration to smelt metal). 3. The resulting technical Civilization to survive it's Nuclear Age long enough to travel interstellar distances. 4. The civilization to be around long enough to detect a repeatable short band radio signal from the 1000's, or millions of light years distant technical civilization which still uses radio to communicate.

[@stellarwind1946]

There’s no real basis for an expectation that life should be elsewhere until we develop an understanding for how it emerged on our own planet.

[@NexxtTimeDontMiss]

And we did and guess what?! Life is liteally Everywhwre

[@victorgarcia4399]

Evolution explains this. Cellular accumulation was due to perserving and growing, which breeds variations. Variations are based on perserving and growing life. These variations are evolution.

[@stellarwind1946]

@@victorgarcia4399evolution is biological. It doesn’t pre-exist biology or explain abiogenesis.

[@victorgarcia4399]

@stellarwind1946 we are the accumulation of cells. Why did cells accumulate into the mamals we see today? Because they found the model best suited for life in the current conditions. Are you saying cells didn't correct their course along the way? Of course they did. So to say evolution isn't at the cellular level seems a bit limited in scope.

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

in the case that the step from non-life to life is not as difficult, such basic life would be more common on exoplanets in cosmos? how might basic life be discovered on exoplanets, which would be the precursor to intelligent and then advanced technology life?

[@bradsillasen1972]

Lots to chew on that bone! Great presentation.

[@Meditation409]

That was a nice tantalizing tid bit and food for my curious mind! 🤙💕😃

[@piehound]

Yeah many thanks for your quest . . . made popular in videos for ordinary folks like me.

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

what are the natural factors that went into development of intelligence (not advanced technology) on earth? could these natural factors needed for intelligence be searched for and detected on extraterrestrial bodies?

[@richblacklock]

Could the next transition be from physical life to nonphysical life?

[@arthurwieczorek4894]

From biological to silicon.

[@TimJohnston911]

Spiritual. Beings of light.

[@browngreen933]

Brain to computer upload is my guess.

[@kennythelenny6819]

​@@TimJohnston911Light is a physical thing.

[@bryandraughn9830]

I like to imagine a species that's a little more intelligent than ourselves maximizing their local resources. If you have your head together you can eek out a pretty long run in your own solar system. You don't want to just multiply, fight and ruin your home if you want to survive. After a couple billion years, maybe hop over to a nearby system as it drifts closer to home.

[@Jacobk-g7r]

20:14 it’s because we ignore data. I mean take for instance an imagination. It’s actually neurons reflecting a mathematical formulation but i use math to reflect its processing patterns and give you some context because the neurons aren’t the full spectrum of that matrix and could be found in the different fabrics and not just the brain. An inventor aligns the portions to discover something. Our portions are portions of reality and the neurons allow us to see potential due to the matrices entangling. I’m a matrix in this matrix of a world in a matrix of a universe. My matrix in alignment and reflection can reveal portions of reality that are not current but my drawn image, blueprint, mathematical formula, all the portions can be found before the whole because there is no one whole. It’s shared. That’s why our matrix can see the potentials we allow to align in our minds. Because when we use binary we think unreal but just because it’s not current, that doesn’t make it unreal because the neurons to imagine are real, the shape drawn on paper is real, the sound is real and it’s connected even though it’s not current.

[@wesleyhatley7963]

The Great Filter is the Hermes Event, when the Technological Singularity meets the Divine Thought of Automation a 5-dimensional perspective shift occurs.

[@tyamada21]

A segment from 'Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within'... My new understandings of what many call 'God -The Holy Spirit' - resulting from some of the extraordinary ongoing after-effects relating to my NDE... Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence - the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future - right down to the minutest particles of dust - each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration. ‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter - I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist. For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects - including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars - none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses. To break it down - Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists - including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them - our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant - our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma - and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory - whenever we experience or express our emotions - or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing. The second law - Renge - Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho - these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlies all spiritual and physical existence. The final and third part of the tri-combination - Kyo, is the Law that allows Myoho to integrate with Renge - or vice versa. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter - as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication - perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists. Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us - all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux - constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ - the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation - rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge - and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents. Nam, or Namu - which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’. On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives - as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives - even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances - turn them into positive ones - or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are - regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect - the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication. For example, the levels of difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything.

[@jimhamlin6551]

The Universe is so unending and big... that we are mirco scopic life....its like we are the ants and we are trying to find something else that we cant even understand and since we cant find that we think it must not exist ..since we cant measure it and detect it Its not our fault we have limited intelligence ...it is what it is...

[@AlienRelics]

Like an ant colony ten miles from an interstate highway. Wondering, if there is other intelligent life, where is it? Why aren't they visiting us?

[@TimJohnston911]

Or perhaps we are a small part of someone else’s brain, like the trillions of bacteria that live in our gut.

[@dubsar]

17:27 (...)"When you are in the light, what will you do? On the day when you were one, you became two. But when you become two, what will you do?"

[@wayneharrison]

Intelligent life? On the Kardashev Scale... Humanity, doesn't even rate as a one. Carl Sagan:- Humanities belief in self-importance, and the inevitable painful reality of "The Great Demotions."

[@r2c3]

we've only recently started to collect samples/data from extraterrestrial objects and the most basic elements have all been discovered, water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus amino acids, and even nucleotides most recently... the question is how did these complex molecules form and how did they get arranged into a living organism... what is the driving force behind such organization...

[@justfellover]

Those are only partial questions. The real question is one that even the most primitive brains on Earth sort out regularly, and the one humans struggle to not have an answer to: Are you gonna eat me, or vice versa?

[@r2c3]

you can eat everything but that won't do you any good either...

[@hokusai3965]

We are alone

[@r2c3]

@@hokusai3965on the contrary, it seems as life in the universe is ubiquitous...

[@hokusai3965]

@@r2c3 there are no evidence

[@emilianosintarias7337]

There is a massive confusion here : extra terrestrial does not indicate life on other planets, it just indicates not from this one. There could be nomadic civilizations who pass close by

[@stoobydootoo4098]

????🤔🤔🤔 Is English not your first language?

[@emilianosintarias7337]

@@stoobydootoo4098 What's your question? Aliens don't need to live on other planets, no matter what Dawkins of astro-biologists assume. They could be space faring races that are often close to each other visa rendezvous points, or to various planets or to our planet. Or they could be living here on earth off and on, and then go back to their caravan.

[@emilianosintarias7337]

question?@@stoobydootoo4098

[@browngreen933]

Intelligent life doesn't have to be technological. Maybe it's MORE intelligent to remain non technological.

[@TheTruth-dh7wj]

This is History

[@terryrogers4638]

I noticed they (the experts) never include the possibility that they have and are visiting. Just not them in particular. And perhaps they have no interest in a broad announcement to a Species in whole.

[@Bloozguy]

The more likely scenario, is that the laws of physics cannot be undone anywhere in this universe. Travel at light speed is universally(literally!) , impossible. Therefore, any intelligent life is stuck in its own star system just like us. Let's assume they all advanced at roughly the same time as us, and that there is but ONE advanced civilization every 10,000 light years away. How are we to know them, and vice versa? It would take thousands of years to get any sort of communication from them. We've had radio signals for just over 100 years now...and reception would also take another 100 year return. So..we won't ever find anything in our lifetime, that is certain. Star travel just is not possible, that's the logical explanation.

[@arthurwieczorek4894]

Please tell us more.

[@TimJohnston911]

If humans were advanced enough to travel to other planets, and on these planets we found pockets of dangerous monkeys, we would likely settle down elsewhere and the vast majority of the monkeys would have no idea we were there.

[@wmpx34]

Because after all these years there’s still zero scientific evidence of aliens visiting Earth. Only weather balloons and conspiracy theories. And people making fake aliens like that guy in Mexico lol

[@Bloozguy]

If all advanced civilizations are trapped in their star systems like us, we will NEVER find each other, or ever know each other exists...There might be a statistic that says one advanced civilization every 1000 light years or so ..that means, we cannot, and never will ever, talk to each other or visit each other. It's the only logical explanation...and right now, physics is on my side.

[@User-jr7vf]

Never say never. Suppose your scenario is true... then another civilization might have decided to send out a signal thousands of years ago, and we may just pick up that signal from them tomorrow.

[@sMVshortMusicVideos]

Plasmalogicals exist, plasma based energy life forms.

[@SumNumber]

In the realm in which we live we have a perfect example of variance in the life around us . IF this is law then does not that law exist everywhere ? We have no previous knowledge base to bounce off of so we depend on our interpretation of what we see. We know the knowledge is there and all the pieces tie together and many have different ways to describe what they see. I see unity on a scale that we have not achieved or understood as of yet. I think we are moving closer to understanding it but we certainly are not there yet. :O)

[@distilledfreedom1840]

What would be more terrifying to me would be some kind of finite universe. If we could see the end..that would just be suspect. A created universe almost necessitates an infinite universe, to us at least.

[@adabsurdum3314]

What, so the horrors, the potential hellish landscapes that EVERY possibility lends itself is just water under the bridge?

[@Stringsmith]

Intelligence puts humans at the top of the food chain; the apex predator, king of the hill. We are, by definition, searching for other apex predators. It brings a sense of stability and consistency to learn that enlightened philosophers think this is a good idea.

[@livedierepeat420]

Nature never makes one of anything. 🎊 🎉

[@plato7771]

Everyone interviewed could have summed up their comments in one sentence: " I just don't know.

[@gooddaysahead1]

Projecting? Just because you can't understand it, it doesn't mean others can't

[@plato7771]

@@gooddaysahead1 I understand just fine, Like many of these videos the speakers take up time with BS when they should just say I dont know. That is what you should say too. Don't be a pretender just say you don't know. I dont know either. See? Easy.

[@gooddaysahead1]

@plato7771 Lots of people seem to rely on the "We are ignorant" claim. We actually know a lot. Just because we don't know everything doesn't mean that anything imaginable is possible. You can not turn right and left simultaneously unless you're a quark. We know how evolution works. We know what light speed is. We know that effects have causes. We know that matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed. We know how photosynthesis works. We can see billions of light years into space. We know about many different kinds of visible and invisible waves. Monkeys can get bugs out of logs with a stick. I'd say we've come a long way. Not knowing everything doesn't make anything possible. Just because something is possible doesn't make it plausible, likely, or anywhere near probable.

[@plato7771]

@@gooddaysahead1 What do we know about alien life or it's existence? The answer is nothing.

[@gooddaysahead1]

@@plato7771 Yes! True! But we want to believe in them so badly.

[@User-jr7vf]

11:03 weird dude

[@Generalized615]

It's weird you felt that was important or interesting to say

[@FesteringGhoul]

Dudes name used to be “Russell.” How is that not important or interesting?

[@Generalized615]

@@FesteringGhoul Its not relevant to the topic being discussed, its just random transphobia because you people are obsessed with it.

[@FesteringGhoul]

​@@Generalized615 You think it is transphobic that I point out the important and interesting dilemma of body dysmorphia? You do not think it is important or interesting?

[@Generalized615]

@@FesteringGhoul The giveaway is you attempting to use that in a sentence without understanding what it is. If you cared about body dysmorphia you wouldnt point it out on someone who could have it lmfao. 0/10 trolling honestly do your homework

[@Jacobk-g7r]

Reality is a blossoming flower, will we create instability and cause the flower to shut me need more time or will we awaken and share so we can help the universe to become a garden and share reality.

[@arthurwieczorek4894]

I would be surprised if it didn't mean another example of evolution to study.

[@shephusted2714]

just do passive efforts to look for life elsewhere and avoid hubris problems - it is very unlikely first of all but the time gaps are another issue - we may detect something but it is already old news in reality - we get a delayed look at things so we should just relax and focus on more pressing immediate issues - if there is life out there it is more likely they will contact us than the opposite - we are in the dark ages and we know it- we should be fine with it

[@terrytwotoes3225]

It would mean we know life exists but could do nothing with that information

[@Rosiedelaroux]

Visit Bradford England. Lots of alien life

[@rarebreed1984]

​@@halcyon2864 It's basically Pakistan.

[@rarebreed1984]

@@halcyon2864 Feel free to take them off our hands. In fact I'm begging you.

[@grijzekijker]

The whole western world is flooded with aliens. And a significant percentage of them wants to destroy white man's civilization and technology.

[@Swampzoid]

Maybe life out there rarely ever reaches the point of being technological. There's just a lot of intelligent life looking out at the stars but they never reach them.

[@howardparis6175]

It's hard to listen to super-intelligent people opine on a subject when they have chosen to be naive on a critical relevant subject (UAP). That highlights the power of official gaslighting and intimidation by the military.

[@agar1974]

Until we realize our limitations, our expansion is not possible.

[@simonhibbs887]

It doesn’t seem to have slowed us down so far.

[@justfellover]

Not without help. But if somebody stopped by with a spaceship offering to take you to a not too distant colony world, they'd get some takers in any age. Especially if they weren't really asking.

[@browngreen933]

From the fossil record we know how life arose here. Under similar conditions it likely happened elsewhere.

[@madmanasaurusRex]

I can’t help but think that these scientists, philosophers and other great western minds would benefit greatly from things such as meditation and psychedelic experiences. I know they went to university so there’s a good chance they have experimented with both, but probably recreationally. It would be outstanding if there were some elective courses in university that would offer students these experiences in controlled environments, and a focus on the Major the students are working on.

[@RavenTD46]

I think we will be facing that great filter within 100 years.

[@browngreen933]

More like the next 5 years. 😢

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

would an advanced intelligent civilization be able to manipulate light to send signals to another advanced intelligent civilization?

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

could geomagnetic field(s) foster intelligent life?

[@albertjackson9236]

The probability of life & intelligences other than on earth is 99.999999999999+

[@urielstud]

Bob, according to Lazar and some other observers of the alien craft, they contain no electronics, and the flight characteristics somehow are controlled by mind and consciousness. The other reason we don’t see them with our telescopes, as Rachel suggests, is that we have only looked out in a 70 ly cone, some sufficient time has not passed for us to see them in such a large universe.

[@tcuisix]

I'll believe when I see it

[@qigong1001]

Bob also claims to have a nuclear reactor in his backyard.

[@gettaasteroid4650]

"garden-variety"? Man was lost and saved in a garden - Pascal

[@gettaasteroid4650]

Jesus is in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, where he lost himself and the whole human race, but one of agony, where he saved himself and the whole human race - Pensees 553

[@erawanpencil]

The notion of alien life is riddled with intellectual baggage and multiple unsubstantiated assumptions about fundamental reality, namely, materialism and random mutation as the sole driving force of life. Even deeper, the dualistic division of reality into life and inanimate matter/space is also very dubious. Until we understand the fundamentals of physics, especially quantum mechanics, and consciousness, it's nuts to start making assumptions about the 'rest of the universe' and trying to find a reflection of our locality elsewhere. It's like a wave in the middle of the ocean holding up a mirror and trying to find a copy of itself out among the rest of the sea. It will never happen. It's all one ocean.

[@TimJohnston911]

Take me to your leader.

[@grijzekijker]

Now is not a good time. Check back in a decade.

[@sonarbangla8711]

Throughout the universe there is only one genetic plan for life.

[@Leif-yv5ql]

Here's a thought. We are someone else's alien life and intelligence.

[@emilianosintarias7337]

Terra struck?

[@Jaggerbush]

If we're alone and the lights go out... It wouldn't at all mean that's it. It would be that's it for this very short moment in time. (I think we're alone. People think bc there's trillions of planets that that is such a huge number - yet hold a deck of cards and understand there's more ways to arrange that deck than there are atoms in the universe. That's how bad we are envisioning large numbers. 52 factorial we can hold in our hand but we are impressed with the idea of a measly few trillion?)

[@thejesuschanneltv]

I don't know. I had to speed up the video 2x to understand the narrator.

[@hobarttobor686]

if the male of an extra terrestrial species believes it is the female of the same species, it must be alive.

[@sujok-acupuncture9246]

If quantum physics is real , then even extraterrestrial life is real.

[@stoobydootoo4098]

Non sequitur.

[@sujok-acupuncture9246]

​@@stoobydootoo4098 If quantum physics has established the anti matter world , then definitely there should be multiverse...there should be extraterrestrial life. To say that we are the only people playing football in the cosmos... does not suit the logic of resonability. By the way whats your view on extraterrestrial life...?

[@stoobydootoo4098]

@@sujok-acupuncture9246 I believe it is possible, but may never be provable; although there could be credible proof tomorrow. Alternatively, everything we experience through oursenses could be illusion/delusion, and only universal consciousness exists.

[@dondattaford5593]

If life is just earth and nothing else then it would have to be repetitive

[@Privacityuser]

is just about ((entroopy releted consuption))

[@DouglasVoigt-tu3xb]

Interesting topic… but no closer to truth.

[@Monkofmagnesia]

You missed the big picture. What is really important are thos six dollar real deals!!!

[@SimonMclennan]

Why do we imagine that our senses are the whole picture. Why not a billion or trillion senses? We see a very little, I suspect. How cumbersome yet well funded, our sciences are.

[@stoobydootoo4098]

Because it would be meaningless.

[@earlsimon8474]

I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, physics and metaphysics never mix well. Pick a lane and stay in it…

[@classic_sci_fi]

What if we find intelligent aliens but they're really annoying?

[@tedgrant2]

If Richard Dawkins had all the answers he would become a millionaire.

[@kakhaval]

With due respect most of Robert's videos and questions are deeply interesting but empty answers. In this video both the question and answers are empty. Sad that monetisation is eroding the knowledge...

[@gregbrown5020]

It would mean nothing

[@S3RAVA3LM]

I'd ask for a top books recommendations. If the aliens are like humans, your sights should be set on them at all times.

[@TimJohnston911]

Passport to the Cosmos by John Mack

[@Dr.Z.Moravcik-inventor-of-AGI]

Do you really believe America can lead humanity in its final phase? What if you screw everything up?

[@MADBurrus]

First, you would have to define what “life“ is… Artificial intelligence and the scientific community as a whole has still yet to define what life is. If you were talking about non-human life then you could be talking about artificial intelligence and if you are talking about Biologics, then you could be speaking of laboratory grown life. And the conversation about intelligence is a whole other fiasco….

[@chrisk1208]

What a limited views are being expressed. We hardly looked anywhere for biosignatures or technisignatures. We haven't looked for artifacts in our solar system, we mainly used radio signals for SETI, while there are so many other signals to look at. And some weird discoveries like baby's star, the wow signal, transients before Sputnik are being ignored or ridiculed.

[@carlstrand87]

Why would aliens want to know humans? Humans are too weird, many don't even know what gender they are.

[@punisher3791]

Trans ?

[@dubsar]

'If they say to you, 'Where have you come from?' say to them, 'We have come from the light, from the place where the light came into being by itself, established [itself], and appeared in their image.' If they say to you, 'Is it you?' say, 'We are its children, and we are the chosen of the living Father.' If they ask you, 'What is the evidence of your Father in you?' say to them, 'It is motion and rest.'

[@Les-i7e]

Fundamental christians. Their on another planet

[@realitycheck1231]

IMO, I think alien life exists, and that there are other universes with different laws of physics. As an example, let's just assume that a robot can become conscious. That robot will not obey all of our laws of physics. They won't have a digestive system and will not require food. They won't need air to breath. There could be a different type of universe with intelligent life forms that don't have our same laws of physics, or like a robot, can defy some of our laws of physics.

[@qigong1001]

And that would be the scariest of all possibilities. Something robot like, no feelings, that evolve and spread. People assume AI will become "conscious" or "sentient" implying some sort of emotional capacity. Thats just a big maybe.

[@Mike-vd7ee]

We're just a fluke.

[@dubsar]

"If the flesh came into being because of spirit, that is a marvel, but if spirit came into being because of the body, that is a marvel of marvels. Yet I marvel at how this great wealth has come to dwell in this poverty." "When you see one who was not born of woman, fall on your faces and worship. That one is your Father."

[@arthurwieczorek4894]

What would alien life and intelligence mean? Another source of Holy Books.

[@ChristianDall-p2j]

11:10 is Rachel Powell trans?

[@vetriligamvetrilingamnadar7171]

Sir according to Tamil language literature " only human would have got God SIVA' Grace then they will be attained "THE STATE OF SIDDHAR" MORE THAN BILLIONS BILLION SIDDARS ARE LIVING IN VARIOUS GALAXY. OUR RELIGION IS SHOWING THE WAY TO ATTAIN GOD 'S STATES. IF YOU REACH THAT'S STATE THEN YOU CAN CREATE GALAXY AND LIFE. AT PRESENT SCIENCE IS IGNORANT ON GOD ( INFITE INTELIGENT)

[@chrisr3592]

at 11:11, is that a man or a woman? My daughter is asking.

[@CloserToTruthTV]

Her name is Rachell Powell and she is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Boston University.

[@chrisr3592]

@@CloserToTruthTV By not answering the question, you have answered the question. Thanks. Great video.

[@monke8478]

Why have you interviewed this person? You should not have done this

[@helendecruz1947]

She's amazing! @@CloserToTruthTV

[@mbolez]

@@monke8478tf is wrong with you?

[@BryanRobertAugustThul-ONELOVE]

They are in the past? Which is what we do when you look out into on through timespace/spacetime? They are in higher dimensional planes in realms in on through Dimensions. In order to find something we Must look in on through the right places... Only B thoughts, Up LOVE ☝️🌎🌍🌏❤️ B🌞 B.R.A.T.😇 Bryan Robert August Thul 👻 ONELOVE The Trinity∆ SOURCE🫶EVERMORE

[@steveroonie37]

The trans thing made zero sense. Completely arrogant

[@rayray6548]

nothing special... it would mean something only for those religious freak seeing their entire belief system going down the drain. but for the rest of us it would be like: " i fuckin knew it."

[@holgerjrgensen2166]

Superstition and Illiteracy.

[@Teddy_Graham]

Boring

[@jamesconner8275]

Pure bunk.

[@simonhibbs887]

Which you posted 9 minutes after this 26 minute video was uploaded. So either you watched it through at 3x speed, which YT doesn’t have a setting for, or…

[@jamesconner8275]

@@simonhibbs887 How much of cake do you need to eat before you know what it is?

[@jpined14]

@@jamesconner8275Is it human cake or alien cake?

[@jeremy2958]

cultural Christian lmao

[@WeirdlyRemote]

I still never understand Dawkins arguments, Darwin has no answer to the origin of life.

[@sujok-acupuncture9246]

No one ever can give any information on the origin of life. Even the so called gods of all the religions have not provided any information about the origin of life. Even the theory of evolution is unprovable. We can never know the truth about the origin of life.

[@Bloozguy]

And yet, 99 % of everything that has ever lived on planet earth is now extinct. Think about that .All that we see, plants..trees...animals .. insects, sea creatures...all around us , in their glorious uncountable variations, is but a mere fraction of all that has ever been!!. No creation story can account for that,and while what exactly is the spark of life that got the ball rolling, is so far elusive, its results are clearly not. Darwin has explained nearly 99% of all of it...let's marvel at that much!❤

[@RobinCrusoe1952]

No-one knows the origin of life. Darwin introduced a theory of natural selection and the origin of species not life. This theory has since been proved.

[@WeirdlyRemote]

@@RobinCrusoe1952 this has been debunked by numerous experts my friend

[@ManiBalajiC]

​@@WeirdlyRemoteevolution debunked is a joke , if you ever read and understood about its a fact which has been proven over and over again. No one has the origin of life , the only possibility is that geographically favorable environments lead to chemical change leading to all this .

[@James-ll3jb]

Hopefully it would mean the end of these redundant Closer To Truth existential b.s. vids. .....It's getting old, Robert.....😅

[@quantumpotential7639]

God made it all. He's a big God. And He can make anything he wants. He can also choose not to make life other than on earth. And that's exactly what He did. Why? Because He's God. And He can do pretty much do anything He wants. Very simple actually. This is NOT rocket science. It's God Science.

[@cosmiccharlie8294]

It would mean that God has more than one project.