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that has become something we would think of as a person.

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really pointing the way to mankind's future?

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another civilization has done the same thing

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hundreds of thousands of years before us.

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where the real intelligence is out there.

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Are robots.

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Since the dawn of civilization,

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to gods and other visitors from the stars.

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What if it were true?

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Did extraterrestrial beings really help to shape our history?

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could there be a connection between aliens and robots?

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At the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute,

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are developing a series of robots,

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artificial humans that are incredibly lifelike,

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both in their appearance and in their facial gestures.

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When we are sitting, we never stop.

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that kind of human life, a subconscious movement.

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is designed to look identical to its maker.

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is the number of miniature motors called actuators

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used to mimic human expression.

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While most use 10 to 12,

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the latest Geminoids use over 50.

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this kind of the pneumatic actuator

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are pulling or pushing the skin

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The robot is programmed to mimic as closely as possible.

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It responds spontaneously to being touched,

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or when asked a question,

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it can also be remotely operated.

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the movement is copied to this robot.

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the system automatically analyzes what he is saying,

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and automatically generates a movement.

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on replicating facial expression,

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have developed a robot named Dreamer

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that can perform an equally impressive series

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of sophisticated body movements.

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We made Dreamer more human-like

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through the futures and shapes

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and dimensions of the human,

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and at the same time, making the movements

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and learning from the human.

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is what we call the whole-body control.

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a bipedal set of robotic legs

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which will make Dreamer fully mobile within two years.

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and assist it without any supervision whatsoever.

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like those developed by Hiroshi Ishiguro

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with the mobility of robots like Dreamer,

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scientists believe we might soon see a time

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when artificial humans will be virtually identical

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very human-like robotic systems

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to the point that they are nearly indistinguishable,

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both in movement and in morphology.

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we could have androids passing a sophisticated version

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that would force the machine to think reflectively

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about its own consciousness, about its own past,

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and in which case we should count these beings as human.

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robots are being programmed to do everything

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that was thought to exist only in science fiction.

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that are increasingly intelligent and independent?

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computers are going to take over from humans.

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have predicted that machines may soon surpass

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that ultimately machines are going to take over the world.

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that themselves design even better machines.

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robots are destined to take over the Earth,

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ancient astronaut theorists are asking themselves

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Did this all happen before?

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lies the ruins of the Osiris Hall,

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where thousands would gather to worship the God of the underworld.

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as one of Egypt's pharaohs.

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but to worship the sun,

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that sun, as far as the Egyptians were concerned,

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also had wings and it descended from the sky.

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an extraterrestrial event that in fact took place in real life.

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that the Egyptian gods were, in reality,

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extraterrestrial visitors,

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there are many who wonder if Osiris was even made of flesh and blood.

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was that he was dismembered by his jealous brother Seth.

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Seth went into a fury and tore his brother's dead body to shreds,

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tore it into 14 pieces, had it scattered far and wide all over the kingdom.

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searched far and wide and found the pieces and pulled it together.

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Isis succeeded in resurrecting him.

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that a being is dismembered

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is it possible that Osiris was not some type of biological entity,

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but perhaps he was some type of a machine or a robot?

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perhaps the strongest evidence that Osiris may have been a robot

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can be found in the ancient pyramid texts,

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which describe the symbol of the Jed Pillar as Osiris's spine.

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that clearly resembles a modern-day Tesla coil.

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The Jed Pillar was considered a power pillar.

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it is as if Isis has her hand inserted into Osiris's back

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and said perhaps it illustrates how she was manipulating Osiris.

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is something completely different than what we have found in the past?

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Is it possible that our ancestors

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encountered highly sophisticated extraterrestrial robots in the ancient past?

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and believe the evidence was true.

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The evidence is not true.

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and believe the evidence was recovered deep beneath the sea

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and dates back more than 2,000 years.

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The Aegean Sea, April 1900.

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Just 230 feet off the coast of the small island of Antiqueterra.

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Sponge divers discover an ancient shipwreck

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150 feet beneath the surface.

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and among them are the remains of a coral-encrusted metal box

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that dates back to the 2nd century BC.

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It is the oldest mechanical computer ever found,

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predating artifacts of similar complexity by 1,500 years.

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with dozens of cog wheels on the inside

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and it has been determined that that analog computer

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was used to predict astronomical events.

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that has ever been created by mankind.

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actually said that discovering the Antiqueterra device

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was like finding a jet plane in the tomb of King Tut.

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It was so amazing to them.

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that the ancient Greeks at 200 BC

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would have had the knowledge of mechanical devices like this.

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That's completely changed the way we perceive ancient history.

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the origin of the ship on which the Antiqueterra mechanism was found,

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the leading candidate is the island of Rhodes.

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to what by today's standards would be considered high technology.

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that Rhodes was once adorned with statues that came to life

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could it be that we have references to some type of machines?

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which is they got it from the gods.

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shared it with humanity.

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there's something you can put your hands on

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It's 1,500 years too early at least.

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and extraterrestrials would very well have had that capability for the time.

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Could the Antiqueterra mechanism be proof

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that the ancient Greeks had technology far in advance

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of the times in which they lived?

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on the island of Rhodes?

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and claim there is also evidence that advanced robots

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existed 300 miles to the north on another Greek island, Lemnos.

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Here lie the ruins of Hephaistia,

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one of the most important cities in Greece.

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It is named for the Greek god of metallurgy, Hephaistus,

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who was said to have fallen here from the sky

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and actually existed on Earth alongside humans.

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doing all the sort of the hard busy work for him.

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a giant man made of bronze who protected the island of Crete.

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and curl stones at those ships.

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and thus incinerating any boat or anything that would come close to him.

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about inanimate objects that appear to come to life.

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The Jewish Talmud describes a clay figure called the Golam

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that could be brought to life by inserting a spell into its mouth.

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In India, an ancient Sanskrit text called the Lokaponadi

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tells of spirit movement machines as far back as the 5th century BC.

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describes a humanoid robot being presented to King Mu as far back as 3,000 years ago.

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There are stories from many cultures,

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from all over the planet of people who have either created other humans

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or machines that were very much like humans.

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what function did they serve? Who built them?

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On March 24, 2015, the Mars rover called Opportunity

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reaches the west rim of the 14-mile wide Endeavour crater.

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It is searching for minerals and other evidence that might prove that life once existed here.

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It is one of several remote-controlled robots

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that for more than a decade have provided NASA with invaluable information

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about our closest alien planet.

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When NASA successfully controlled robots over, you know, crazy distances,

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they would execute the plan here on the ground

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and they would upload those instructions to the robot on Mars.

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works on the International Space Station.

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And in development is the so-called Super Robot, Valkyrie,

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which is designed to set up habitats and pave the way for humans on other planets.

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When humans go out into space, it's very difficult and dangerous and time-consuming.

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It's far easier to send robots, and if that's what we do,

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that's sure as heck what extraterrestrials are going to be doing.

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But just as we're employing robots today to gather information and minimize risk to human life,

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could similar cybernetic technologies have existed in the ancient past?

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Could stories like that of Osiris, Tullos and the Golem be true?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and believe that the proof

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can not only be found in the past, but right here in the present.

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Norway, November 2014.

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Scientists from the University of Oslo work on a new breakthrough in robotics,

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creating robots that are able to adapt and continue functioning,

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even after losing a limb.

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The robots also know how to create new limbs with the use of a 3D printer and reapply them,

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effectively repairing themselves without the aid of a human being.

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This new technology is the first step in achieving what Hungarian scientist John von Neumann envisioned back in the 1940s.

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Self-replicating robots.

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John von Neumann was a mathematician that had an idea about self-replicating machines,

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where you send out a seed machine and that machine will seek out raw materials to construct a copy of itself,

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and then that will then send that machine out to replicate itself.

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So one become two, two become four, and eventually these things would be able to explore the entire cosmos.

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Now one theory is that extraterrestrial civilizations would build space probes like that,

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and that would be the quickest way to explore the entire universe.

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The interesting question is going to be the extent to which part of that self-replication includes the memories and the learning

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that the first generation of robots engage with.

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So you'd want to make the robots as open to new experiences as we are,

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but at the same time be able also to pass on the experiences from any given generation to the next generation through self-replication.

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So I think that this could be a very important way in terms of space travel to go.

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I mean I think the more interesting question from the standpoint of ourselves as human beings

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is the extent to which we remain part of that process.

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Is it possible that we could create self-aware robots that are completely autonomous

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and send them off to explore the universe unassisted?

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And might these robots be able to self-replicate endlessly using materials found on distant planets?

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Ancient astronaut theorists propose that extraterrestrial beings may have already achieved this technology.

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It is entirely possible that an advanced civilization, and I'm saying far more advanced than we are on Earth,

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could actually develop this technology of self-replicating machines

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and then could send artificially intelligent robots out into space

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as sentinels that scan a much faster area than that civilization itself could go to with manned probes.

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It's something that probably is already very widely in use by a variety of extraterrestrial civilizations.

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The Bonne-Milman machines are an awesome idea that is reflected in ancient stories of extraterrestrials coming to Earth.

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In the ancient Egyptian tradition we learn of these formless light beings

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that emerged from what they describe as the island of the egg and create civilization.

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It suggests that they're utilizing some kind of self-replicating robot

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that has the ability to utilize genetic forms perhaps imported from the home planet

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that can then be manifested on a new planet, in our case Earth.

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Is it possible that evidence of self-replicating robots can be found in ancient historical and religious texts,

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such as those concerning ancient Egypt?

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And if so, is mankind today merely tapping into knowledge that was available on Earth thousands of years ago?

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Knowledge that might have been brought here by extraterrestrial space travelers?

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According to some ancient astronaut theorists,

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the concept that extraterrestrial life forms may have first visited the Earth as machines or robots

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is not only likely but logical and can even help to explain a series of alien encounters

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that have been reported as recently as the 20th century.

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Encounters with robot visitors that might otherwise be referred to as the Greys.

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May 9th, 2001, the National Press Club, Washington, D.C.

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During a media conference for the disclosure project,

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former Army Sergeant Clifford Stone makes a stunning announcement.

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He claims that for more than two decades, he was part of a top-secret military operations unit

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tasked with recovering extraterrestrial technology for the United States government.

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I was involved in situations where we actually did recoveries of crashed saucers

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for lack of better termed degrees thereof.

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There were bodies that were involved with some of these crashes that also somewhere alive.

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While we were doing all this, we were telling the American public there was nothing to it,

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we were telling the world there was nothing to it.

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One of the things that Clifford Stone talked about was a program called Project Moondust.

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Now, Project Moondust was a legitimate military program and it was designed to recover things like Soviet space satellites.

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The small number of documents on Moondust that have surfaced through the Freedom Information Act

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talk about how it wasn't just Soviet spacecraft, it was also UFOs.

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It actually uses the term UFOs in the documents.

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According to Stone, he was the first to respond to 12 UFO crashes.

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But it wasn't until the day after the press conference, during a closed session with Stone and members of Congress,

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that he revealed something even more shocking about his first-hand accounts with alien entities.

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I met him the very next day on May 10th in the closed executive VIP summary briefing for members of Congress.

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One of the things that Sergeant Stone talked about was the nature of the so-called gray extraterrestrials.

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He said that there were some very strange biological anomalies about them

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that make them look almost as if they are some sort of biological robot.

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They seem to have very few, if any, organ systems in the body,

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and yet these beings appear to be able to walk around and think and function.

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Sergeant Clifford Stone got so emotional about what he was talking about in front of these congressmen

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that he literally broke down in tears and walked off the stage.

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I spent several different times with him at his home,

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looking at documents and listening to him tell his own extraordinary experience

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of having some sort of an encounter with something that would fall in the category from his point of view,

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of being in the android or hybrid area.

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Is it possible that the so-called grays reported by alleged alien abductees

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are really robots being controlled from beyond our planet?

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In 2014, the online magazine Motherboard posted an article

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in which a handful of philosophers and astronomers speculated

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that the dominant life form in the cosmos is probably super-intelligent robots.

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And according to ancient astronaut theorists, the notion is not as far-fetched as it seems,

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especially when one considers that Hiroshi Ishigoro's Geminoid robots

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are designed to transmit a human presence from thousands of miles away.

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Similarly designed to operate from a remote distance is the Dreamer robot,

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created by the University of Texas and also NASA's latest robotic space traveler, Valkyrie.

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What we envision in the future is more of a supervised autonomy

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where you're giving the robot high-level instructions

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and the robot's autonomous enough to interpret those high-level instructions

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and then carry out a portion of its mission.

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If you have androids, something else with great intelligence

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has to have made them to come here to work on this planet.

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But while some ancient astronaut theorists believe

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the grays could be surrogates controlled by alien entities from far, far away,

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others suggest the truth is even more incredible.

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People often describe the grays as featureless, emotionless creatures.

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Could it be that they're all effectively from the same mold?

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Maybe they are von Neumann self-replicating machines themselves.

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The interesting thing about this theory is that people often say

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that the purpose of the abductions is to harvest genetic materials

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what they might be doing is actually getting genetic material from humans

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to construct more copies of themselves.

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When Clifford Stone made the statement that grey aliens might not be entirely biological entities,

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as part of his argument, he cited the fact that they have a cookie-cutter quality to them.

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Does his testimony suggest that the extraterrestrial entities that are visiting the Earth

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are not only part mechanical and synthetic, but also part biological?

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Or do they really represent alien creatures that are part machine and part human?

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Dr. Thomas Bolland files the first patent for inkjet 3D printing of viable cells.

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Already a multi-billion dollar industry, this process involves placing biological materials

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into modified ink cartridges and printing onto bio paper made of soy and collagen.

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What we see is little Petri dishes with a culture medium like agar in them,

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and then you have a little nozzle that comes over and spray paints these little hexagons onto the agar,

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and within only a few minutes they start growing cells, and they become these brown spots,

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which are the beginnings of human livers.

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Dr. Bolland has some very interesting research looking at printing cell tissue.

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I think that opens up some very interesting ideas about how to bio-manufacture things.

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At some point it will have application in the field of robotics,

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especially as we start combining devices with the human body.

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Many believe this is the first step in constructing engineered human organs.

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Ultimately, the goal is to do the same for every other part of the human body.

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But there is a movement to go much further in merging biology with technology.

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It is called transhumanism.

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The ultimate goal of the transhumanists is to become an immortal god.

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And literally these people believe that they will merge with technology and become cyborgs.

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They believe that they will unlock the immortality anti-aging systems encoded into the human race,

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and that that will be the supposed final evolution of human beings as they ascend into godhood.

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Transhumanists generally acknowledge that human beings are the products of biological evolution,

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but we've now reached a stage in our development where there's an open question about where we should go.

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On one hand, our biological background could be taken as a kind of platform to go forward,

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manipulating genes in various ways, but on the other hand, we might think about ourselves merging more directly with silicon-based technologies.

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We see the rollout of these head-mounted displays like Google Glass, where people are now wearing a computer on their head.

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The Apple Watch now is a sort of merging man with machine, and instead of sitting down at a computer now, people are just wearing their computer.

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We see artificial hearts, we see pacemakers, these are sort of the early precursors to this transhumanist transformation.

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There certainly is a merging between technology and biology, and we're experiencing it right now.

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Some experts believe that by the year 2050, scientists and engineers will have unlocked the secrets of immortality

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through the production of artificial organs and silicon-based structures.

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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that considering the fact that we are experimenting with transhumanism today,

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it is very possible a more advanced extraterrestrial race has already achieved similar technological advancements.

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A civilization millions of years older than us could have actually evolved much beyond the baby steps that we're taking right now.

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If we are doing this, is it possible that another civilization has done the same thing,

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but perhaps thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years before us?

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When we look at some of these ancient texts that we have, we're always talking about ancient astronauts that came to visit us.

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But what if we were visited by machines?

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And so the idea then arises, will we ourselves be able to become cyborgs?

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It's possible that other civilizations may have decided that they would be able to essentially live indefinitely this way.

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And the more that we look at the way in which technology and biology are fusing together,

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the more that we can confront the notion that with the advancements of computer power,

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we could have sentient beings that are significantly more advanced.

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Is it possible that extraterrestrials have not merely sent intelligent robots to Earth in their place,

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but that they themselves have actually evolved beyond biological bodies?

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And if so, what might this mean for the future of the human race?

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February 8th, 1957, Washington, D.C.

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At Walter Reed General Hospital, Hungarian scientist John von Neumann,

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the man who came up with the idea for self-replicating robots, dies at the age of 53.

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At the time of his death, he was working on a manuscript titled The Computer and the Brain.

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At only 82 pages, the text was far from finished.

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But some have proposed that von Neumann was exploring the possibility of reproducing a human mind entirely on a computer.

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For transhumanists, this opens the door for what many consider one of the most radical innovations, mind uploading.

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Companies have actually built what are called neural interfaces where they have wired computers into people's brains.

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They believe that they can map the entire human brain and all of the data that's stored in it,

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and then replicate it into an artificial, intelligent, silicone-based system where it can then be stored and essentially never die.

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Is it possible that an entirely non-biological being could have sentience?

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And if extraterrestrials have been visiting Earth for thousands of years,

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might it be more likely that they are actually fully robotic beings?

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Biological entities may actually be a rarity in the cosmos.

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We may be largely living in a universe where the real intelligence is out there and perhaps coming down here are robots.

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There are some who believe that machines may have already achieved a level of intelligence vastly in excess of our own,

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and that they may be giving us a trail of breadcrumbs to help us rebuild the technology that would get us to become enough like them

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that we could eventually be merged into their society in some fashion.

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Could extraterrestrials who have been observing mankind for thousands of years

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have led us to this point because they desire not just that we achieve advanced technology,

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but that we actually become the technology?

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might they have initially created us as biological entities in order to limit our lifespan until we are ready to become like them?

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There are very interesting things about how similar to a machine the body is.

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If you injure certain parts of the brain, the body breaks down like a machine.

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You can injure a tendon or a joint, and then that part of the machine doesn't function anymore.

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So we have to look at the possibility that life is not necessarily what we've considered it to be.

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There is a possibility that if we create computers with enough complexity,

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that consciousness could actually breathe life into that inanimate substance,

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and you have a robotic consciousness that has become something we would think of as a person.

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In ancient story, after ancient story, we see references of extraterrestrials seeking to influence the human body,

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to augment it, especially with technology.

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With today's transhuman movement, you have to ask,

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is this possibly part of an extraterrestrial agenda to influence humankind through the implantation of technology with the human body?

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And if so, what is the purpose? Is it to accelerate our abilities, or is it an effort to control humanity?

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Ultimately, time will tell the answer to those questions.

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Is it possible that otherworldly beings are leading mankind not only to evolve on Earth,

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but ultimately to a destiny of joining them in the stars as non-biological entities?

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And could it be that our increased reliance on computers, cell phones, the internet,

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and even synthetic body parts is part of a vast extraterrestrial plan?

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One that will see humans become more and more assimilated.

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Into the very technology we have grown so dependent upon.

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Perhaps mankind's destiny is not to have a close encounter with its ancestor,

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but with our future selves.

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And perhaps when that day comes, human beings, as we now know them,

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will be thought of as little more than obsolete operating systems.