Rich Reynolds cautions against using a “Sample of One” to intuit how extraterrestrials would think. Just within the human species it’s dangerous to do so. Most of us find the mind of a Hitler inscrutable, for example. Many of us don’t even understand professional wrestling! But Rich then asks: Cognitive UFOs or Just Passive AI Machines? Seems Rich here extrapolates “that any civilized species, from elsewhere or nearby, would have to be empathetic and helpful” in certain situations, as it’s “what an advanced species would do, should do.” Rich does acknowledge what seems “a dormant sentience” to UFOs, or worse—showing how intransigent is the problem of ET sensibility. The Cloud of Confusion: UFOs in the Open Market applies this question of UFO Reality to the debates within ufological circles. (He also properly derides the term “UAPs” as grammatically incorrect.) But Rich seems both right and erroneous regarding his term UFO Hoarding. Many of us struggle to benefit from all we acquire, and data dormant in an archive is useless. But in business and academia, data is potential power. It can form a basis for higher-level studies that will solve problems, benefit people—even save jobs and lives. Whether that transfers to UFO study largely remains to be seen—public government projects to-date haven’t been fruitful. But private efforts aimed at digitizing and disseminating data, analyzing such statistically with reference to scientific principles and a knowledge of the field, could be productive. (WM)
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