Moore/Green Best Guess

I thought Eli had lost it when he asked me to let him use my digital camera to capture spheres. Spheres are little blobs of light that show up on a picture. We walked around my apartment building and he snapped dozens of photographs. To my utter amazement, when we looked at the images several had strange blobs of light, usually near the ceiling, randomly spaced and not reproducible with subsequent photos from the same location.

“Perception is reality,” touted a USAF Colonel in 1997 when a N.Y. Times correspondent asked him why he had lied about the identity of a flying military asset that had been observed over the east coast. In every respect the Colonel was right. Had his initial claim not been refuted, how would anyone know his statement was disinformation? If you don’t have a bag of tricks to help you decompose disinformation, you might as well stay home.

One of the simplest, most elegant and reproducible ideas ever conceived by a human was published in 1977 by noble prize winning brain scientist, Sir John Eccles in “The Self and Its Brain.” Eccles defined reality as something that can affect the behavior of large scale objects. (larger than the quantum level) Based on that idea he proceeded to further clarify reality with a three world view.

World I consists of physical objects including air, gravity, and magnetic fields. These objects are real because they conform to his definition of reality in that they affect the behavior of large scale objects.

World II consists of states of mind, conscious and unconscious, considered real for the same reasons as World I objects.

World III consists of products of the human mind, not physical objects, not brain states, but stories, myths, pieces of music, mathematical theorems, scientific theories, etc. This reality is established by the intervention of consciousness. Without consciousness these would not exist and only a self conscious mind can appreciate the reality of World III. So, according to Eccles, it follows that human consciousness itself must be real and different from any physical object, even the brain.

This remarkable concept of reality easily explains why disinformation works so effectively. Disinformation relies on our tendency to confuse World I with World III realities. Both are real, but neither World implies a reality for the other. They are their own, separate realities.

A ufo that is picked up on radar or seen by a person is a World I reality. That the ufo is piloted by aliens, regardless of the ufos flight characteristics, is a World III reality. They are both real, the first a physical object, the second a story or myth. Disinformation (and advertising for that matter) works so well because we confuse World I with World III realities and its reciprocal.

I seems unlikely I would have been enticed to a remote recreational area in New Mexico for termination, despite the fact that I suggested it. More likely, consistent with Moore and Doty prior dark deeds, I probably would have been subjected to a World I reality, strange lights in the sky, etc., with the expectation it implied a World III reality. Turn me into a believer and I lose all credibility. Just another ufo nut.