Richard Hughes wrote: > Discovering aliens would make my life, really > I'd die a happy man. > Maybe the 'aliens' are already here and you just don't know it. If any alien were smart enough to visit the earth they'd probably know all about cloning and mind transference as well as time travel and parallel universes.
For example, scientists still don't know where the Sumerians came from. But you're just assuming that aliens are easy to see because of their form, but they may be here right now in the form of replicants. Aliens are propbaly not different in form from 'humans' - they are different in MIND-set. I've often thought that aliens are not just from outer space - they are from out-of-mind and they may be our true enemies. Ed won't agree with this but we should be fighting and killing our enemies, especially those who try to brain-wash into believing that religion is a good thing, like the radical Islamists are tying to do. The religionists have almost taken over the entire planet! They've turned us into a world of liberals - weak and unable to see the truth - now we have millions of people who are like sheep and won't even stand up and fight back. Like the Manchurian Candidate, they are killing us from within and it doesn't have anything to do with how they look or what race they are. But it should be a clue when you see them building pyramids and ziggarats as signals to the other aliens. The replicants in 'Blade Runner', based on the book by Phillip Dick, (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep), are created to exactly resemble humans. In San Francisco post WWT there is often confusion whether a humanoid is real or an android. Bounty hunters and others use the Voigt-Kampff test to distinguish humans from replicants. This brings up the question of human conciousness, robot conciousness, and how they are similar and different from us thinking humanoids. The main theme of Phillip K. Dick's novel concerns similarity and difference; sentient robots that look identical to humans, but are not human at all. The central question is wheteher or not we can spot replicants in order to retire them. Looming in the background is the question: is Deckard himself a replicant? Thinking like a replicant is the way Deckard explores his own conciousness and humanity. Replicants, that is, androids, make Deckard realize that he might not be so human after all. He actually becomes more inhuman than the replicants he is remorselessly hunting! The problem is, with such a limited knowledge that humans like you have, you wouldn't know if you saw a replicant, if it was human or not. You don't even know for sure if you are dreaming or not. There is not one single experience that humans participate in that could not be experienced in a dream. In dreams, doors are doors and tables are tables. In dreams you can run and jump and consult your friends. In dreams you can fornicate and drink beer. Who is to say that you are not brain-washed and sleeping the big sleep already? You, 'Richard Hughes' might already be dead and dreaming the big dream. According to almost everyone responding here, us humans are in an abject state of ignorance - we don't even know who we really are.
