Blinkadoo Indigo Release v. 1.0.1
(c) 2017 Transcender
Starship.
Written by Aneel Pandey.
How
to Play
To
play the Avatar:
Select
Start Game, then click on Play Avatar. Random numbers using the system
timestamp as seeds will determine the bit assignments.
To
play a Human:
1.
Make sure that they have Blinkadoo
installed on their phone. You may select Send Invitation from the menu to send
them an installation link via e-mail or SMS. When you select Send Invitation,
you may enter a message indicating that you will be the Starter and they will
be the Joiner.
2.
The Starter is the one that decides how many rounds are played. The Starter
should select Start Game and get ready before the other player selects Join
Game. The Joiner must then enter the Starter’s Gmail in entry box, and then
click Find Starter. After the Starter is found, the Joiner must click Join Game
– Select. Then, when ready, the Joiner must click Ready to Start. The Starter
and Joiner can then start the game.
3.
A randomly generated bit, a 0 or a 1, is generated for each player. If you
think that the other player was assigned the same bit as you, select SAME,
otherwise select DIFFERENT. After each blink is completed, you will hear two
tones. If both players made a correct selection, then you will hear two high
tones. If both players selected incorrectly, then you’ll hear two low tones. If
you selected correctly and they selected incorrectly, then you will hear a high
tone followed by a low tone. If you made an incorrect selection, and their
selection was correct, then you’ll hear a low tone followed by a high tone.
Once the game is finished, you will be shown the final results.
From
Jimmy Church’s interview with Aneel Pandey, which covers the theory behind Blinkadoo:
“Oh, I was flipping out when I was listening
to this. I'm like oh my God, this guy needs to be heard ... heard on a broader
scale. But I don't know, I was like wow, I can see where this can go. I can see
where, knowing what I know based on what I do, this ... and being so close to
Silicon Valley, I thought oh my God, you just merged two worlds.” - Maria on Fade to Black… please subscribe to Jimmy
Church’s Archive which contains the audio of this transcript in an mp3
downloadable file:
FADE to BLACK
Episode:
#637
Title:
Quantum Simulation
Host:
Jimmy Church
Guest:
Aneel Pandey
Web
site: jimmychurchradio. c o m
What is cracking, everybody? Fire it
up. Fire it up. Let's get her done. I've been waiting for this show for a long time.
I wanted to spring this one onto you. Tonight very special guest Aneel Pandey
is here. We're going to have a discussion on everything. We called the show
Quantum Simulation and there's a lot of reasons for that. Last week Aneel and
I, we were kicking around titles for the show and it came down to this, but you
know, it's more about a show of enlightenment, possibly alternate realities.
How to test them, how to get to them, how to prove them. Some of the things
here on Earth that are telling us things.
I'm going to spring all of this onto
you, okay? It's going to be an amazing conversation. Very smart guy. Take
notes. You're going to watch this show a couple of times, and I get that.
You're going to listen to this show. You can watch it a couple of times if you
want. It's going to be one of those shows. Do take notes. Aneel is a very,
very, very smart guy, talented guy. He's a musician too, so he's got a lot of
background to him. When it comes to computers, computer science, code, and what
is behind those things, and trying to get to ... Is this a simulation right
now? Right now that we are in? That's part of it. Okay, so just get ready. It's
going to be a lot of fun. I'll have Aneel here in a few minutes and we'll get
this thing started.
Tonight, very special guest, Aneel
Pandey. Now, we're going to discuss computers. We're going to discuss quantum
mechanics, quantum theory, and simulation. Are you a simulation? Right now, are
you a simulation? Are you ones and zeros? Are you a cubit or not? Tonight, we're
going to find out.
Aneel Pandey was born on Manhattan
Island in New York City. He has lived in Nashville, Tennessee for the last
twenty-eight years where he started a computer software company in 1992. He
sold it eight years later with sixty-five employees to Information Holdings
Inc. and in November 2000, shortly before the dot com crash. Transcender was founded on the transhumanistic concept of
transcending the DNA physical carrier in favor of artificial life extension in
to transistorized bodies. He believes that simulation theory is the best model
to operate from during the transition. He has also played bass in a rock band,
Darko Blo, has written a song, Google “Dream Girl, Transcender Starship,” that can be found in our links, you
can just go to Jimmy Church radio dot com, click on the links, go check out the
song. It is actually pretty amazing, pretty cool. I'm a musician, I've produced
a lot of stuff, and I got to tell you, go check it out. He has written a
soon-to-be-released software game program for mobile devices that purports to
test whether one bit of data can be transmitted nonlocally. He believes that
the Sun is living. The websites are transcender. c o
m and transcenderstarship. c o m, and I would like to
welcome, for the first time to Fade to
Black, Aneel Pandey. Aneel, good evening, sir. Welcome.
Aneel Pandey: It's
great to be here.
Jimmy Church: It's
great to have you here. Now, okay. Aneel, we're going to start here. With every
first-time guest, we do the same thing, which is our first-time guest
disclaimer. Next time you're on the show, you won't get it. But tonight, you
do. Okay? The disclaimer is this: it's just you and I sitting on my couch,
having a conversation as friends. Where we start, we start; where we end, we
end, but we're going to end as friends. You ready to go?
Aneel Pandey: Sounds
good.
Jimmy Church: Okay.
We're going to start here tonight, because we have so much to go through. There
is a lot in this concept. We need to start with the Sun. That's what we're
going to do, but let's back up before that, okay?  Did you always have this fascination with the world
around us, and wonder about what is going on? Certainly, the questions of a
simulation or a simulated reality, I'm not sure if you had those when you were
five years old. I kind of did. What happened in your life where you had this
epiphany to start to go into this direction? Tell me about that.
Aneel Pandey: Well,
I guess it has a lot to do with me growing up and being a big Star Trek fan. There's two concepts in Star Trek that I'm kind of following up
on. One would be the character Lieutenant Commander Data. He is basically an
android that has done what, I think eventually, we're going to do, and that is
that he transcended the DNA physical carrier, meaning that our cultural line of
evolution, our language, our beliefs, can be transferred into a non-DNA based
transistorized form in silicon. That is, DNA does not have a monopoly on living
or consciousness. That's the first concept from Star Trek.
The other one is the starship that can
be built to travel around the galaxy. Those are the two concepts, and, I guess,
what follows from there is in order for those to come about, what type of model
are we going to implement, are we going to follow to make those things a
reality thousands of years from now. Definitely, The Matrix was the big breakthrough in, as far as my thinking, as
far as what we're living in. I think that and The Thirteenth Floor is another really good movie that explains
exactly what's going on here. I think The
Thirteenth Floor comes closest to what's actually happening here.
Jimmy Church: You
know, what's interesting is, and thank you for when you're so honest with that,
because there's no telling how many great physicists, scientists, code writers,
theorists, today, are doing what they're doing because they just freaking
watched Star Trek. It causes them to
think outside of the box, right? It's really true. If you go back to 1968, the
original versions of Star Trek with
some of the technology. The simple stuff that is around us today, was in
concept, was just in this TV series in 1968. But it causes people to think,
wonder, and dream, and maybe not accept the status quo.
When I first saw The Matrix, and then you bring that up. The first time I saw The Matrix, I thought it was a great
movie. I didn't get it. The second or third time I saw it, I remember sitting
back, going, "Holy crap. This movie really actually has a message in
it." It really flipped me out, and it got so deep on me so quick, it went
from just being some cool, flashy Hollywood movie with some really neat special
effects, to something that I thought was a game-changing reality for all of us
where we need to step back and maybe start to question things. It's just funny
that you say it in those terms, because I hear you, and I totally get what
you're saying.
Aneel Pandey: Right,
and they say that science fiction writers turn out to be the best prophets when
compared with other prophets like Nostradamus or characters like that. Science
fiction writers get it right more than anyone else.
Jimmy Church: Yeah,
it's true. It's true. Arthur C. Clarke, Heinlein, Gene Roddenberry, any one of
those cats were more accurate than people that claimed to be professionals at
it. It's really kind of funny.
Aneel Pandey: Right.
Jimmy Church: Okay,
well, that's interesting. Just really quickly and briefly, you started a
software company. You can tell us a little bit about that, and then sold it
during the dotcom push that happened and its bubble and crash. Tell me about
that, and what did you learn through that period about the capabilities of
computers and their systems, and maybe even their shortfalls.
Aneel Pandey:
Right. What happened there was I was getting out of school and I was trying to
figure out what to do. What was happening is that Microsoft was starting up a
certification program on Microsoft Windows. What you would do is you would go
into one of their testing centers, you would sit down, and answer a bunch of
questions. If you got enough of them right, they would pass you. Then you would
be able to use the Microsoft logo on your business cards, and use that to
promote yourself as Microsoft-certified. What I did is I went in and I took all
the exams. When I got back, I made up sample questions that were similar to
what you would see when you go in to take the actual exam, and then I gave you
explanations and references and everything like that. I also gave a money back
if you don't pass guarantee, which very few people took us up on that. I think
we had more people return the product because they ordered the wrong thing than
that they didn't pass the exam. That was back in 1992.
Every time Microsoft would release a
new programming language, or operating system, or database, I'd go in and take
the exams and then write sample questions. That continued from '92 until around
2000. At that point, we had about 65 employees and were just churning out these
certification products. It seemed to me that it was the P/E ratios on the
stocks were through the roof. I kind of sensed that we were in a bubble, and so
I started looking out to try to sell the company. We ended up finding somebody
that bought it. They were traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Information Holdings
was their name. We sold out to them, and that was in November of 2000. About 10
months later, the next September, the whole dotcom crash occurred. I got out
right in time for that. That's basically that story.
What got me interested in Microsoft
was, a thought experiment as to what is the landscape around here going to look
like in, say, 200 years. What came to mind is that we will have gotten out of
these DNA-based bodies, and have our consciousness in a transistorized type of
body, like a Lieutenant Commander Data, like an android. From that, I focused
on, well, what do I need to be doing now? What is the pathway there? Of course,
Microsoft came up, and the certification program that they were doing. That's
kind of what gave me a look into how to proceed.
Jimmy Church: So,
the strength of traditional computing systems today versus other alternatives
out there, such as obviously the quantum computing, which is going to be the
next boom certainly. What are the advantages and what's the disadvantage of Intel
chip technology and that transistor versus the quantum chip set?
Aneel Pandey: Well, the quantum chip set uses what's
known as a qubit, and that bit has a probability assigned to it of being in one
state or the other and it's in neither. And then when it's observed that wave
function collapses, and I guess it has to do something with being able to
evaluate all the future probabilities of something happening at one time, so it
would be much quicker than the current transistors that go one operation at a
time.
Jimmy Church: In
real time, right.
Aneel Pandey: Go
ahead.
Jimmy Church: I said "In real time," it's just either on or off
right now, it's not doing anything else but that. It either has one state or
the other.
Aneel Pandey: Right, right. And that's still very much
in its infancy. But either way, I think that it is possible to replicate
consciousness in a non-DNA based form, I don't think that you have to have DNA.
So that's the vector that we're on here, to replicate our consciousness in
non-DNA based bodies.
Jimmy Church: Now, before we continue, let's start with,
because I just wanted that established right now, I want that in the back of
everybody's brain here, let’s start with the Sun. You believe that the Sun is
living, and I think that most of our audience would agree, but they may not
have the view of what you are about to say. And I want to say this to our
audience, we've had many people on this show, that have for another reason, and
not for what you're about to lay on us, but have had the same conclusions about
the Sun coming from different sources. That the Sun is living, that the Sun
could possibly be a portal, that there is an entrance there, that there is the
possibility of it communicating with us and it has been for a long time, it is
been telling us things and we need to pay attention. So the audience is used to
that part of it, so let’s start there. Why do you believe the Sun is a living
thing?
Aneel Pandey: Well, first off, everything the occurs here
on earth, all the actions, all the life and everything like that, we're all
operating on recycled energy from the Sun. The Sun is our source of our energy
and also at one point we were all stardust. Everything that we are right now
ultimately came from the Sun. If I were to illustrate a cartoon, imagine that
you have two red blood cells in the cartoon, and they're in an artery and they
are born into existence, they live for 30 days, they carry oxygen from the
lungs to the tissues and back and forth, and if you can imagine two of them
wondering "Hey, I wonder whether this being we're inside here is
intelligent?". And obviously the answer would be yes, and I think we're
sort of in that same kind of situation. We don't really have the means to have
a direct conversation with the Sun, and find that out, but the evidence really
points to the fact that since that brought us all into being, it seems to
follow that it would be an intelligent as opposed to just being a big ball of
fire in the sky.
Jimmy Church: And if we look at it in those terms, is
the Sun aware of us and our current state?
Aneel Pandey: It might be, I would hope so. I don't
really know what its thought processes are like or if
it can sense us on an individual basis or anything like that, but I'm sure it's
aware of the Earth and there's definitely a very strong relationship between
the Sun and the Earth, and there's all kinds of magnetic fields going back and
forth between them, and communication there. So I would think so.
Jimmy Church: And only because when we're dealing with a
universal consciousness, and things at the atomic level, certainly the evidence
of us being this bright blue planet that is alive and that is growing and
there's people here, that every time it may burp or have some type of cosmic
event that it directly effects the people here, and the families and the life
and so forth, because it has the power to end all, but it also has the power to
create everything at the same time, right?
Aneel Pandey: Right. And we know back in 1859 there was
what was called a Carrington Event, it was a huge solar storm, and basically
the telegraph lines got so heated from the induced electrical charge that some
of them caught on fire. And of course being 1859, there weren't a lot of electronics
that people had that would be affected and of course biological systems really
are not affected by those kinds of waves. But of course if another solar storm
like that came, it would be much more serious. And I do think that the Sun is
aware of what it would be doing if that were to happen again, so a lot of this
is focused on, what do we need to be doing in case the Sun is conscious and
could do something like that? Are we doing something constructive here?
And I think certainly the Internet is
a huge benefit to the planet, it's basically the brain of the planet. Everyone
is connected, we're all like little neurons that have cell phones that are
connected to the wired networks going around the planet, so the Earth sort of
has its own consciousness. We're getting to the point now to where if something
from outer space, some debris were to come in our direction we could possibly
defend ourselves, send something up there to push it out of the way. So from an
observer’s standpoint looking at the Earth, to see the Earth sending something
up and pushing something away, it would give the appearance of, well, that's
the Earth doing that. The Earth has developed quite a bit, especially since the
transistor came on the scene. And so the question is, where does the Sun stand
in all of this? I think you can figure that out by going into sympathy with the
Sun, sort of like putting yourself in its place, if you know what I mean.
Jimmy Church: That being said, if the same cosmic solar
storm happened today that happened in 1859, with our dependence on the
Internet, which goes through everything, right, the infrastructure, obviously
the Internet, but now it's television and communications and cell phones and
our water system, our food delivery system, everything -
Jimmy Church: Our
water systems, our food delivery, everything is dependent and connected on the
Internet. If that solar storm happened today, are we back in the Dark Ages?
Aneel Pandey: Quite
possibly, if the Sun were to let out a coronal mass ejection, say, the size of
Jupiter, and that cloud of charged particles made its way here and lingered
around the Earth for a few weeks, and we didn't have electrical power, well
then all our food supplies are shutting down. You can't pump gasoline. Anything
electronic is not going to work, and so yeah. It's hard to imagine a worse
catastrophe than something like that happening.
Jimmy Church: We're
going to head towards a break here in a couple of minutes, and I want to set up
the next part of this discussion, which is going to be the Georgia Guidestones. Now, what I would like from you is your
opinion about what the Georgia Guidestones are, what
they represent, because we've discussed it many times on this show. I've got a
hundred different opinions. I don't think we know anymore today or understand
any more today than when they were first constructed. Let's start there. What
are the Georgia Guidestones? And what are they trying
to tell us?
Aneel Pandey:
It's a monument that someone built in Georgia. And most likely it was built by
the owners of the stone quarry to, I guess, draw for publicity for their
company or something like that. It has a lot of concepts written as far as what
they think the world should be. One of the things on there is to maintain the
population at 500 million people. And that's a lot more then what we have now.
We have, I guess, over 7 billion so that would be a huge reduction in the
population. And it kind of gets you wondering. I would kind of view it as a
warning. That we need to make sure something like that doesn't happen. And what
could that be? I mean it could be another solar storm. If we had that kind of
scenario where a cloud of charged particles lingered around the planet for
weeks that could bring about exactly what they're talking about.
Jimmy Church: If
500 million people survived a solar storm like that. We go from 7 and a half
billion to 500 million, who would the survivors be? Is it the Elite or is it
just the guys that weren't living in cities that were lucky enough to not be
able to afford a house in the city, and now they turn out, it's like the week
shall inherit the Earth. Who would those 500 million survivors be in something
like that?
Aneel Pandey: Yeah,
I think that's right. I mean the people in cities aren't going to be able to
survive. They're not going to be able to get food and everything like that.
Whereas people that are accustomed to living in the wilderness and living off
the land, those are the ones that are going to be able to survive that.
Jimmy Church: Yeah,
I think it would really be funny. The people of Africa, Central, and South
America that maybe not, they don't have the exposure to technology and
everything else that we do today, right? Well it turns out that that's exactly
what would keep them alive in this event. Because they wouldn't depend on
electricity. They wouldn't depend on those things that we depend on today.
Our guest tonight, Aneel Pandey. I'm
your host Jimmy Church. The title of the show is Quantum Simulation. But it's
much more than that. Stay tuned. More within the hour, right after this short
break. Stay with us.
All right, welcome back. Fade to Black. The game changer network at KGRA, The Planet. Our
guest tonight Aneel Pandey. You can follow me on Twitter at JimmyChurchRadio.
c o m. And continuing the conversation, and Aneel, you write, "We theorize
that the structure of the Universe allows us to commence certain operations,
which transcend our space-time continuum for the purpose for avoiding another
solar storm." What do you mean by that?
Aneel Pandey: Well,
that sort of operates on the assumption that the Sun is conscious, and is aware
of us, and does know what's going on. And it does have control over when and
where it sends another Coronal Mass Ejection. And so, the question becomes
well, what do we do to get there, to that point where it's the Sun is not going
to want to send another solar storm our way? And so, going down that pathway
leads you to imagine if you were the Sun, what would you want? And obviously,
we know someday the Sun is going to run out of fuel. It might be billions of
years from now. But still, never the less, it's going to happen. The theory is
that the Sun should be concerned about running out of fuel and what can we do
to help with that? And the answer would be to build a starship to be able to go
out into the Universe and bring back more hydrogen supplies to refuel it.
That's the theory there on that.
Jimmy Church: And
how would this be done? I know it's a logistical thing. But going out, I mean,
isn't hydrogen everywhere? Would we have to leave the solar system? Could we
just go to Jupiter? I don't know.
Aneel Pandey: No,
it could be that you have to go to a place where there are other stars being
born and haul one here. That way, of course, again we have billions of years to
do this. But the good news is that once we transfer or replicate our
consciousness into non-DNA based entities, our bodies will be computerized,
they can be backed up, so the life span will be indefinite. Whether it takes a
million or a billion years that won't really matter, we'll still be there to do
it.
Jimmy Church: So I
think we're probably getting pretty close to this technology today. In your
estimation, how close are we to downloading our consciousness onto a USB hard
drive?
Aneel Pandey: Well,
I think what's going to happen with that is that each person that decides that
they want to continue their existence on this planet, say when they become 100
or whatever, that they would construct and Android body. Which I'm calling a transcender. A transcender, like
with the “er” at the end means “one who.” So, a transcender is one who transcends. And what are they
transcending? They're transcending DNA. So, this person will build an Android,
like Commander Data, it will look like them. And it will just continue on
acting and being that person. And if you say, live another 40 or 50 years that
the technology in 40 or 50 years is probably going to be such that most people
cannot tell the difference between, that you've been replaced by a robot. Certainly
you can construct something that would at least fool your pets. Could it fool
your mother? Could somebody question it enough to figure out well, okay that's
not, that's not you. But that transcender will take
on your legal identity and continue indefinitely.
Jimmy Church: Yeah,
I think that conquers a lot of issues. And I've theorized about that myself
many, many times. And I had Michio Kaku on the show a
few years ago when he said, "I'm telling you right now, they can already
download, and they are downloading consciousness into computers." And it
was a pretty dramatic thing for him to say. But it opens up that idea. How do
you overcome the physical body, right? That's the whole trip. The other part of
it is how do we power, how do we build, and where do we come up with the
technology for the starship itself to get out there and back? That's another
question that has to be answered. What do you have for that?
Aneel Pandey: Well
I think they had it right in Star Trek
with the USS Enterprise. What they used was a matter/antimatter reaction that
was mediated by di-lithium crystals, which are of course, fictional. So the key
is how to power it and the power source is antimatter and basically - based on
the work I've been doing and looking at this - one of the things that we're
going to have access to by going into sympathy with the Sun - and we already
have the instructions on how to do this - is to build a diode that would be an
antimatter-particle-beam-emitting diode. So we're talking about an electrical component,
like a transistor that uses the voltage difference to spew off a stream of
antimatter which can be collected and stored and used to power the starship. So
that's the power supply.
Jimmy Church: Let's
take this a step further. My first question is where are these instructions
coming from?
Aneel Pandey: Well,
basically ... I guess that you would call it a Gedanken
experiment, a thought experiment in that, what is the next step that we have to
take to build this thing and what it boils down to is the orbit of the planet
Eris and Eris is the furthest planet from the Sun. It has an orbital period of
five-hundred-and-sixty years, so it takes five-hundred-and-sixty years to make
an orbit around the Sun. Pluto is about two-hundred-and-thirty years. So if you
take the year 2000 as your pivot point and you say that "well,
five-hundred-and-sixty years in the future, one Eris orbit - we're going to
have starships by then" that's the target date to have this diode built,
which is quite a lot in the future. So
you take that 2000, go back exactly five-hundred-and-sixty years so you're in
the year 1440 and that is the year that Gutenberg invented the printing press.
Jimmy Church: Interesting.
Aneel Pandey: And
so, if you were to imagine having a conversation with Mr. Gutenberg in 1440 and
you describe to him a laser printer, his question would be, "well how do I
build one of those, how do I build a laser printer?" – So to make that
work, you have to have a computer, and a monitor and that whole kind of set up
and of course, that's all based on transistors, which are based on electricity.
But if you look at a printing press and you look at a computer with a laser
printer, they pretty much do the same thing. Instead of inserting the wooden
typefaces, you clack at a keyboard and instead of pulling down the lever you
hit print, but it does about the same thing and so the question is explaining
to someone now how to build this diode that emits antimatter is like explaining
to Gutenberg, "well, this is how you construct a laser printer."
So, that's going to be difficult. It
can be done. We have laser printers here now. You can take them apart there's
people who know how to build these things, so it could be explained to him, but
they hadn't discovered electricity for another three-hundred years.
I guess you'd have to move forward into the 1700s with Ben Franklin flying his
kite in the rain in a lightening storm and figuring
out this thing called 'electricity', so that's still three-hundred years off.
So that's kind of what we're up against and the instructions, at this point,
from going into sympathy with the Sun and opening up that data pipeline,
because obviously, when it comes to power and electricity and high-energy
physics and things like that, of all the individuals out there, the Sun is the
number one expert on things like that. That's what it's doing all day.
Jimmy Church: Well, we have antimatter being created at
different sites around the world right now, I talk about it all the time on
this show. It is certainly being done. The containment of antimatter is a whole
other situation itself - it can't come in contact with anything, so it has to
being suspended in an absolute vacuum at certain temperatures and so forth
because if it makes contact with anything, including its containment vessel,
all hell breaks loose. How do we address that with this diode by creating
antimatter inside of the diode where, I guess, action comes out of the other
end of the diode, whether you're calling it fuel or the mode of transportation
and an energy source to move this ship forward, how do we overcome that inside
of the diode without having it imploding on itself?
Aneel Pandey: Well, that's going to be a technology
that's going to be developed and that's why I'm thinking it's going to be more
like five-hundred years before we can contain it and put it in starships and
have starships flying around because that question is sort of like Gutenberg
asking "so on this transistor here, exactly how are we going to do this or
that" and it's hard to bring that to a very clear focus, however the
instructions to build this diode are actually pretty clear, in the sense that
they're going to come in steps and the first step to build this diode is to go
back to the Gutenberg example and ask "if you were to be sent back in time
to the days of Gutenberg and you had unlimited resources and let's say your
lifespan is not an issue, ... And you can bring back all the information you
want, as long as it's in a text format, a book, or whatever, what would you write
down in that, so that when you get there you can build this thing?"
Jimmy Church: Is
there a way for us to theorize too, as well, through software to see how this
would actually ... What's the word I want to use ... Well, assimilation - some
type of computer program that we can take a look at and analyze the amount of
energy coming out of this diode and that it would ultimately be safe and
usable?
Aneel Pandey:
That's still down the line but the instructions at this point, in order to
build this diode, are to get a handle on how to build the transistor. Meaning
in order to conduct this simulation that you're talking about for this diode,
the first thing that needs to be done is whoever is designing that simulation
or involved in it, or whether it's a computer, or whatever, it has to have a
full working knowledge at its fingertips of exactly how a transistor is built,
how a laser printer is built and all that has to be loaded onto memory and then
from that point, we'll go into sympathy with the Sun again and get the next
instruction set on the pathway to building this diode but you can't really jump
ahead of that first step of getting your programming environment installed. You
have to load your operating system and your software to the computer first and say
"okay, we've got everything set here, now what do we do." But the
first step of actually writing up this manual on how to build a laser printer,
and a word processor, and a computer, and everything like that. The information
is really out there but to put it in a format where you could actually do it
when you got there, which means going gathering up sand, refining it into
silicon, and then doping it with gallium to make it into a semiconductor, and
constructing a transistor out of that. Then once you have the transistor…
making that into a computer. Once that's all laid out, then you can start
thinking about, "Okay what's the next step to start building this
diode?"
Jimmy Church: Something
comes to mind here as I'm putting this all together, I'm thinking about this.
When we are talking about an android type of body, either artificial or real,
uploading consciousness and ourselves onto this so we can potentially not deal
with our meat body and the problems that occur there. Certainly
to travel to the stars. If consciousness is running around the universe and
inhabiting our bodies, is it possible that other reality that is out there,
could consciousness then make a choice? Maybe not even go into our own bodies
and take over an android body? This is where science fiction comes into play
into reality where maybe if I'm out there and I have a choice, reincarnation
have you, and I wanted to come back maybe I wouldn't want this human body,
maybe I would want an android body. Is that a possibility?
Aneel Pandey: When
you say “me,” are you talking about your ego? Or what are you talking about?
Jimmy Church: Me,
me. Our brains are electric. Our brains are electricity. There are those out
there that theorize when the electricity stops and our body shuts down
consciousness is over. That our brain is creating consciousness. Then there are
others out there, and you and I have talked about this, consciousness is
everywhere. We here right now in the now, now. Before I was born and occupied
this body maybe if there was an android sitting there and I had a choice, is it
possible for those beings to take over an android and never even go through the
human aspect?
Aneel Pandey: As
far as what you are, you’ve got an ego, you have a superego, you have an id,
you have a shadow, you have a persona and what we're replicating here in the
android body is your persona. Your interface with the outside world is your
persona so that is what we are going to try to rebuild here. Now I guess the
question is, is there like a soul that leaves the body and then floats around
out there for a while and then when it sees another body, you're saying that it
could inhabit that body like in reincarnation?
Jimmy Church: Why
not? If that capability is there for you to do it what would stop a soul from
doing it?
Aneel Pandey: Right,
well I would guess that if there is this soul that moves from body to body, one
to another, one human to another, lifetime after lifetime, if that's true then
maybe it can inhabit an android body. That kind of remains to be seen. It's
kind of hard to picture how that would really happen because what's happening
in the android is it's running a program and it's trying to emulate what you
were like. It's going to have your voice, it's going to have as many mannerisms
as you have, it's going to have as much as you can capture on video tape and
save on your hard drive… those are going to be its memories. If somebody asks
you a question it can refer to those videos that are saved and they'll all be
indexed. It's kind of running an emulation so I don't know exactly if these
souls go from body to body, I'm not really sure how that works and if they
could interface with something electronic.
Jimmy Church: Yeah
I'm saying that's like the ultimate danger.  It's not what you intended.
Aneel Pandey: Yeah,
I would be very surprised to see that happen.
Jimmy Church: You
also write that our reality, and you and I were talking about this last week
and I find this fascinating because right now Silicon Valley some of the
brightest, best, not only CEOs and corporate heads and those rich dudes, but
engineers down at the coding level are all talking about what you and I are
doing right now. Right? We are sitting here talking live on the radio. This is
the simulation that quite possibly, we are the simulation, we are in effect the
matrix, we are the ones in zeros, and the reality is actually something else.
Now this is as high line and as crazy as that sounds, this is seriously being
discussed right now in scientific and computer circles isn't it?
Aneel Pandey:
Right, all the evidence is pointing to that being the best model of our
reality… that we are in a simulation. When I first heard that term, I guess
Nick Bolstrom first came up in 2003 saying that
statistically if we eventually evolved to the point where we can run other
simulations like Second Life, or like a video game where there are avatars that
are playing against each other and they develop consciousness inside of these
games and have their own lives and agendas and whatnot, he said that
statistically we're probably in one of those. But now that has really sunk in
that maybe that's not quite exactly what's going on but that ... When he calls
what we are in now a simulation what he means is that from base reality, which
I would also call a complex reality, we look like a simulation in the sense that
if I look at Second Life and there's an avatar in there and he becomes
consciousness and starts asking me questions: "Hey what am I doing here?
What's this all about?" Well I'm going to say, "You're in a
simulation and it's not real because if I flip this power switch off, poof,
you're all gone. Until that power comes back on you don't really exist
anymore."
Second Life is a simulation and all
the evidence now is pointing to the theory that our spacetime continuum is
emergent, it's emerging out of this other dimension. What is cluing us in that
that's what's going on is these quantum-level effects like quantum
entanglement, action at a distance… Einstein called it “spooky action at a
distance.” Then, on top of that, you have the whole situation where we have
these synchronicities happening, those coincidence that are connected by
meaning that they don't appear to have any cause and effect basis but yet
there's a connection there. The synchronicities on top of the quantum
entanglement are the main two things that are cluing us to the fact that we
came from somewhere.
Jimmy Church: We're
gonna take a break and this is the perfect set up
right here. It's a perfect break. When we come back we need to talk about
locality, non-locality, and exactly what you're referring to here. Some of us
out there in this audience, it's been a subject that has been discussed a lot
over the years, but I think it's also very, very, very misunderstood. Our guest
tonight, Aneel Pandey. I'm your host, Jimmy Church on the Game Changer Network
and KGRA, The Planet. We'll be back right after this, more with Aneel Pandey.
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complex but I think it can be described in a simple way. When we're talking about
causality, non-locality, dualistic ... When we start to get into that, it
sounds a little bit strange, but it is ... It's proven scientific theory now,
isn't it?
Aneel Pandey: Right,
right. There are these effects and they use the word now, "nonlocal,"
meaning ... that local refers to this universe. Okay, so a nonlocal effect
would be, say, action at a distance. So we'll take two particles, they'll
become quantumly entangled, and if one is placed, say, a light year away when
the spin changes on one, the spin on the other one changes simultaneously.
Which should violate Einstein's theory of relativity because you would assume
that if one is changing at the same time as the other, that some kind of signal
is traveling faster than the speed of light,... But if you follow simulation
theory, well that explains that. That explains how that would work.
Jimmy Church: And
how do the synchronicities side of things come into play?
Aneel Pandey: Well
I think that synchronicities are ... That term was first coined by Carl Jung
back in the '50s and it refers to meaningful coincidences. They are these two
events that are coinciding and they're connected through meaning, and I think
we've all had these experiences where we have a premonition, or we know
something that we shouldn't know, or ... You're thinking about somebody and
then you run into them, and there's just not a causal explanation for it. It's
just ... That it's too much to just say that it's just out of randomness. The
odds of things like that happening are so slim and I think we've all had
experiences like that, and that's kind of what clues us in. Those
synchronicities are manifestations of nonlocal phenomena ... That they're not
connected by cause and effect, rather they're just connected by meaning or
sympathy.
Jimmy Church: Could
they be connected from another reality? Could it be us knowing what's going on
in a ... And it's directly connected right back to us and here, and it's
happening on that nonlocal atomic level. And if it's happening at the atomic
level, it happens at every level. It would happen with our bodies itself. And
if we are in a simulation on this side and synchronicities are happening, is it
because of a connection directly, nonlocally, between that other reality?
Aneel Pandey: Yes,
that's exactly right. What's happening is ... Like let's say that you're an
avatar in a computer simulation, and you're on one side of a wall and there's
something on the other side of a wall in the simulation that you want to see.
Now, like in our reality we could look and see ... Go around the wall and look
and see what's there, and that transmission of that information could not occur
faster than the speed of light.
However, if you're in that simulation,
if instead of accessing ... Looking in that direction, if you on the
microprocessor. You're running on the microprocessor. The microprocessor is
sitting right next to the memory. If you were to look at those memory locations
that are rendering that object on the other side of the wall that you want to
see, and you just peek at those memory locations, and that can occur faster
than the speed of light. It's right there. So simulation theory would explain
these types of synchronicities and nonlocal phenomena. It's basically activity
that is being accessed from within the memory of whatever is running us, and I
would assume it has characteristics like a microprocessor, and RAM, and things
like that. So that can be accessed instantly.
Jimmy Church: I have
a friend that has a simulated reality ... Artificial reality company here in
Los Angeles. When I say a friend, I mean this is somebody that I'm friends with
before he started the company, and his technology is so far ... I mean, it's
serious business. You go and look at the worlds that he has created ... I mean,
from not only things that we know like Los Angeles or Palm Springs, where you
would absolutely ... This isn't like Google Earth, right? This is a whole
another situation. Down to the detail level, it is absolutely perfect, and if I
was living on a chip and I was in his simulation, there would be no way ... I
wouldn't know the difference between what I think is right, reality here, and
what is there. What would the difference be to me? Would I even care? I mean,
everything would be the same wouldn't it? And what about ... And with that,
what about smell and taste and touch and things?
Aneel Pandey: Well
it'd kind of be like The Matrix all
over again. You'd have to decide ... Somebody might approach you and say,
"You want to take the red pill to get out?" So, yeah I mean that's
... It would ... I think The Matrix
movie is kind of what that would be like. That kinda
illustrates the scenario you're talking about, right?
Jimmy Church: Yeah,
yeah. I'll never forget Agent Smith ... Or was it Agent ... No, it wasn't Agent
Smith. It was what's his name when he was eating the steak, right? "I can
see the steak, the steak is juicy," Right? "I taste it, but I know
it's not real." And that's the trippy part, because if we have the ability
to download us right now, like I said, on a USB drive, and we jump into a video
game or some type of artificial reality, well then we could exist there. And
would it be okay? Would we have fun? Would we want to leave? Would it be an
area that we didn't enjoy? Or would it just absolutely simulate where we are
and we probably wouldn't care?
Aneel Pandey: Well,
I mean I think in that scenario that you're spelling out, what would be inside
there would be an emulation of you. You would try to design this being inside
there that is going to pass a Turing test. That that's really you, that you can
basically fool everybody else into thinking that it's you by replicating your
persona. As far as like what goes on on the insides,
it's kind of hard to say whether that's going to emerge into the same kind of
consciousness that we experience moment to moment. But what really ... What
really matters is how your presentation is to the rest of the world, whether
you interact the same way as you would out here, are you going act the same way
in there.
Jimmy Church: And you see, that's the other question.
That's exactly where I'm going. If you start to split, in other words, you take
my persona, you take your persona and it goes onto an Android, now what's the
deal? What's the deal here? Are you guys thinking at the exact same time? Or
now is your persona, is there actually in effect two of you? And would it make
different decisions? Or are you permanently connected at the quantum level as
well? Yeah, well, to really pull this off where you're in another person,
they're gonna have to number one, assume your legal
identity. Which means, is this other entity, is it going to have the same
social security number as you have?
Aneel Pandey: I wouldn't want to make two of me and have
two of me running around doing different things. That would get awfully
confusing. Now of course if, and say fifty years from now, when time is running
out, well then that would be probably at some time then, I'd say okay. Well okay,
this is going be the day that when I die, this thing is going to take over and
pick up without missing a beat to continue my existence. I wouldn't do it
before that. That would be premature.
Jimmy Church: Yeah
and so we have a set of problems here, don't we? If you do it before your
natural life ends, do you have to give up this life to turn on the Android,
right?
Aneel Pandey: Or
they'll have to make a law against there being two of you.
Jimmy Church: Right.
 And then the other part, and again
this goes down all the way to the atomic level, and I'm going to bring
antimatter right back into this conversation because antimatter is everywhere.
And if there are two personas, you chose the one, right, persona but let's just
go with souls, consciousness. If there's two of you running around, are we now
running into the danger of paradoxes? And things that aren't supposed to be in
the future are now different because there's two of you, and do we start to
implode at an antimatter matter confusing level of things that we just don't
understand the consequences of what may ultimately happen here with
nonlocality, with quantum, with cubits for example, that suddenly there's two
of you that are running at the same time in this reality?
Aneel Pandey: Right.
I think if that were to happen, it would just be a very confusing situation to
have two of you out there but I don't know that that would involve any kind of
nonlocality or anything like that. It would just be, you've built this robot
and it looks like it has your name and it's, I guess, running around
impersonating you, and so that would not be a good situation.
Jimmy Church: Now,
so what would be the next step here? Okay, so we've achieved the diodes, we've
built the starships, we've achieved this artificial, downloading artificial
beings of us. Would this be a way for us here on Earth to ultimately survive,
not only with the starships going to get hydrogen but maybe just to be immortal
and to live forever? Is that the next step? Would we have children? Would there
be a need for children and so forth?
Aneel Pandey: Well
the possibilities are really endless from there.   Again, we're talking billions of years in the future, but we're
really only limited by our imaginations at that point. And anything that you
can think up, you could manifest that into being.
Jimmy Church: Right now, Sandia National Lab’s main
focus, the big chunk of their money, is focused on computers and consciousness
and being able to, not only communicate with the computers but download us,
right? Our dreams, our visions, our actual selves, our id. And downloading
everything onto disk and onto a hard drive. Is it because they know something?
Are the Georgia Guidestones, are they hip to what's
going on with the Sun and ultimately they know that time is of the essence and
we only have so much time to get this done and we need to do this now? Do you
think that that's what's going on with DARPA and Sandia?
Aneel Pandey: Oh
for sure. What's happening here is it's actually evolution. We've all been
programmed with that from the start and I guess the evolutionists would say
that the individuals that have this inclination to survive, reproduce and the
ones that don't, fall by the wayside. So we've gotten to this point now where
we have this huge survival instinct and the questions becomes, okay, how do we
survive? And I'm saying that if we get into alignment with the Sun and to have
sympathy with the Sun, empathy, and get onto that vector of being in alignment
with it to form more of a symbiotic relationship with the Sun, because right
now we're just kind of consumers, to move that relationship to one more of
symbiosis, we're going to be a lot better off.
And I don't know how much time there
really is for us to get our cultural line of evolution going in a more stable
medium. So that could be ... And at the rate that we're going here, and the way
things are going, it probably better to do that sooner rather than later, so
yes.
Jimmy Church: Well
and last week Elon Musk announced his next company is the interface between us
and computers and getting the language developed and the hardware developed to
get this direct communication going with the chip set. And it's an obvious,
obvious focus on the technical side of our civilization. This is not a joke at
this point. This is a stated goal and when you get Elon Musk and other
companies too, as well, on this case, something is going to happen very
quickly, isn't it?
Aneel Pandey: Right,
yes. And that's the direction we're moving in and I think the way it's going to
progress is that we, as humans, will integrate ourselves more and more with
computers. We're pretty well integrated now. I know I've got my cell phone with
me all the time and my laptop is around and so we're continuing on this march
toward becoming a type of being that is not dependent on DNA, that we're in a
more stable medium, something that can be backed up. That if this Android out
there, if something happens to it, it's going to have its memories, everything
backed up. It'll be just a matter of building another mechanical body and then
downloading the software back into it. So you're going to have an indefinite
lifespan and these transcenders, they're going have
our language, our mores, our beliefs, our value systems, our legal systems, the
whole set of rules is going to stay the same for them but they're just not
going to have DNA in them.
Jimmy Church: We
now can download and store information on artificial DNA, right? One of the
quests and goals in science is to be able to do it on biological DNA. And start
to, they're talking about building computers where the memory is based on DNA.
We're very, very close to doing this, like I said, we can now, we can store
information on artificial DNA, that's a frightening thought. With the transcenders and with this android system, would this be on
an artificial DNA, because it's going to take a massive amount of memory and
capacity on this, or are we just looking at a traditional memory storage system
for the persona?
Aneel Pandey: Well,
I mean, I think we'll work with whatever we have at the time. So I think
whatever can process the fastest is what they'll be replicating our consciousness
in. And that just means getting it to react to things and have the same kind of
agenda that you would have. And I think we'll just use the top technology that
we have at the time. Whether that be, some kind of new kind of transistor that
they come up with, or light transistors, or I mean there's all kinds of
different kind of technologies that I'm sure they'll advance us to.
Jimmy Church: I'm
going to… a couple of quick questions before we hit the break. And when we come
back we'll talk about your new developments and your new game and what that
entails. That's going to be an interesting conversation when we have it. But,
first thing, why do we sleep? Is this part of our proof of another reality out
there? I mean, why do we sleep and see these other realities?
Aneel Pandey: Well,
I guess when we sleep it's sort of the ego is being turned off. And I guess,
and they say for about 20% of the night, you're in a dream state where your ego
I guess, can sort of observe things but it's not really in control, unless
you're having a lucid dream.   I don't know, I mean we'll
have to see what happens with that, they may not, there might be some reason
that we might find the answer to that question you know if these things try to
continue running 24/7 if they don't shut down and kind of power down for eight
hours a day. You know, maybe they'll function better if they have that rest or
something, that'll be interesting to see.
Jimmy Church: One
of the other things would happen if we move into this android singularity type
of existence, is no more hospitals. Right? No more medical science. That's a
huge chunk of, there wouldn't, because there's no need for cancer research, is
there? If we're all living in a transcender body,
right? That's it. It's over.
Aneel Pandey: Yes,
I guess the focus at that point would be on how to continue making improvements
to this android body. If you have it be able to jump really
high or play sports or I play table tennis, it would be pretty cool to
have it play table tennis.
Jimmy Church: Right,
but if you broke your android leg, you're not going to go to the doctor. You're
just going get a new leg. Right?
Aneel Pandey: Right.
Yeah I guess they'll have to have android hospitals where you can come in and
they unbolt the old thing and put a new one on.
Jimmy Church: Yeah,
yeah. An android ambulance. That would be hilarious. But yeah, I mean all of
these implications come into play. Right? And they all do. And certainly the resources and everything else, I mean that
would be part of the appeal for a guy like, look at Stephen Hawking, right? If
he could get his brain out and just get it into a body that where his physical
self doesn't matter anymore, he would jump at the chance. If you are a guy like
Bill Gates or Elon Musk and you can get the transcender
android body going on, then you're not worried anymore about illness, disease,
a flesh-eating disease, or some crazy thing like that. All of that is gone and
then all of the resources that we put, all of the man power and science that we
put into medicine, can now be focused into other areas. Isn't that a benefit?
Aneel Pandey: Right,
yes, there's going be that benefit and an a lot of
other benefits too, to not have these physical bodies, that if we can transcend
the DNA and be in that state. But I would say as far as for those people it
would sort of be like there would be that day where you go to sleep and do not
wake up. And that's kind of it for you, but this emulation of you at that point
is activated with your legal identity and everything like that, and that
continues on. And everybody thinks that it's you. Well, they would probably
know, but it's going continue to act the way you did and do the things that you
were doing and continue your job and your mission and everything like that. But
as far as like, you, yourself, it's that experience is going be like going to
sleep and not waking up.
Jimmy Church: Yeah
and the other part, we're goint take a break right
here. You know the famous quote, do robots dream of electric sheep, right?
Aneel Pandey: Right,
from Blade Runner.
Jimmy Church: Yeah,
from Blade Runner. It all comes into
play. We'll be right back, our guest tonight, Aneel Pandey, I'm your host Jimmy
Church, this is Fade to Black. All right,
welcome back, Fade to Black. I'm your
host Jimmy Church, our guest tonight, Aneel Pandey. We're talking about quantum
simulation. Fascinating conversation tonight. And Aneel, right before the break
where we started to talk about no more disease or anything else, but it got me
thinking, that what would we do? Would we literally be a 24-hour-a-day
civilization? You know, 24 hours a day on a starship, would there be a need for
sleep? Would we ever just go, man I'm tired of thinking. I've been thinking now
for five years. Right? What do we do at that point?
Aneel Pandey: Yes,
I think at that point we're probably going to want to experiment that if we
shut down for eight hours, is there any benefit to doing that? Is there better
functioning in some way, and maybe we'll discover no, we can in these new
bodies we can just stay awake all the time. I keep my computers running 24/7
all the time, they seem to do best just being turned on all the time.
Jimmy Church: And
then we have the learning aspect, right? That's what we do, we learn every day.
Don't put your hand on a hot stove. Right? You do it once you don't do it
again. We learn, we read, we're learning. If we are in a 24 hour, you know,
full on curve like that, then we're getting really smart
very quickly. And AI is getting so good now that it's learning exponentially, I
mean it's outpacing what we do as humans. So now, how smart do we get as an
android? How quickly and do we shut off that curve? Because we would end up
ultimately becoming too smart, right?
Aneel Pandey: Right.
And I just had one thought on the sleeping for eight hours a day, what we
would, if in those bodies it might turn out that we need to spend eight hours a
day just indexing the memories from the day or maybe connecting the memories
from the day, or maybe connected to the Internet, but just not in a state where
you're running around interacting with other people, that you're just kind of
performing housekeeping functions, or analyzing memories, or things like that,
so there could be some kind of programmed different state of consciousness that
resembles more like sleep than just the, "Okay, what do I have to do right
now to survive," kind of consciousness.
 Collectively the machines
know that they are interconnected, and wow, right? I mean it's a knowledge,
information, and control explosion that I think would end up happening very,
very, very, very quickly.
Aneel Pandey: Right,
yes, and I guess Star Trek has the
Borg where we're all kind of like integrated into this huge hive consciousness,
and that is one thing that could come about, for sure.
Jimmy Church: Yeah.
Like the movie Tron. You know I hate
going back to Hollywood, looking at Hollywood for this, but it causes the
imagination to wander here, and yeah, would apply to just like the existence in
the movie Tron. I totally, totally
see that. Are we, because of all of this, if we are the simulation, are we a
self-evolving experiment here?
Aneel Pandey: Quite
possibly. That's the big mystery that we have going on here, is where did the
matter in the universe come from? We don't really know. I mean they say the Big
Bang, but where does that come from? So, yes, and anything like that's
possible.
Jimmy Church: Yeah.
The more that I know about the Big Bang, the less that I doubt that that's
actually what happened, and if we go into the many, you know, the multiverse,
then what we are suggesting here, that mathematically that, and I know that the
multiverse is quite possibly the way that things are, right, but does that mean
that each one of them were created the exact same way, through a big bang and
mathematically everything just worked out to be the same in the end? Right? It
just doesn't make sense, unless there was some type of master creator, some
dude or woman, that has been around forever, literally forever, and is creating
things, and that's how we got here. Now, that makes a lot more sense to me than
chance, than the Big Bang.
Aneel Pandey: Right,
and going back to the fact that we're seeing all these, this phenomena, like
quantum entanglement, and synchronicities, and all of that, it suggests that
there is another reality, a complex reality, or a base reality that contains
our dimension, and the question is can we interact with that other reality.
That communication, I think, it comes through synchronicities, through signs
that you can see in everyday life, and if as you are able to interpret those,
you can become more in tune with this complex reality, and whatever agenda it
has for us.
Jimmy Church: Now,
I want to talk about your game, but before we do, one simple question here. For
the other reality, whether we are the simulation or the other reality is the
simulation, whichever one is real, what is the proof that you have that that
other reality exists?
Aneel Pandey: Well,
it would be the quantum entanglement, the nonlocal phenomena, things happening
out of order in the spacetime continuum, through synchronicities, and
meaningful coincidences. That all adds up to being proof that our spacetime
continuum has emerged from some other reality, and we see evidence of it being
there, and that's really where the proof stands right now.
Jimmy Church: The
point that you made earlier at the beginning of the show about the Sun being
alive, the thing for me, where we need to stop and maybe take a breath, and
look at what other ancient cultures were doing around the world. They try to
break it down in too simple of a formula that the Sun came up every day, it was
light, it was dark at night, everybody was scared, and in the morning the Sun
saved everybody, therefore they looked at the Sun as being a god. That the Sun
was growing plants, it was giving life, and it was therefore a god. If what you
are saying is accurate, and I'm right with you on it, just maybe the ancients
had a way to connect with the Sun and communicate with it, and maybe the Sun
communicated back and told them things that they never knew. Maybe a lot of
information came from that communication, and that communication we have lost
over time, you know because, now we have toys, right, we have television, we
have distractions, and we've lost that control, or the ability to see the other
side, to see another reality, to communicate, and that communication is gone,
so we don't understand maybe what the ancients knew. What do you think about
that?
Aneel Pandey: Yes,
well, I guess the most prominent in that analysis would be Akhenaten, the father
of King Tut, that was an Egyptian pharaoh that changed things up quite a bit
and got everybody really worshiping the Sun and that was his agenda, and I
think he ruled for about 17 years doing that. Yes, the history of regarding the
Sun as a deity goes back a long way.
Jimmy Church: Yeah,
absolutely. Akhenaten that was his rise and his downfall,
actually. The day after he died, they went right back to what they were
doing before. They wasted no time. All the priests, they fired up the temples
again, and the priests, what's funny, I'm going to spend about 30 seconds on
this. It was a corporation, right. It was a giant, country wide corporation.
The priests had their temples. They collected all the food. They were feeding
whoever, you know what I mean? And they made money, and they were wealthy, and
Akhenaten took all of that away. The second he died, they're like, "Okay,
let's get this money machine going again." That's the way that I look at
it. That's my 30 seconds.
Okay, tell us about the game, and what
is the goal of the game?
Aneel Pandey: Okay.
Yeah, it's currently under development, if you want to keep up that. You can
just follow Transcender Starship on Facebook would be
a good way to keep up with what's going on. Otherwise, transcendertarship.
c o m. It's very simple, and what, I guess you would call, a nonlocal-signal
detector. How it works is that you and I would load the app that you would
download onto your cell phone, for example, and it would establish a socket
between you and me and the IP address. It's going to show you either a one or a
zero at random, and it will show me a one or zero at random, and then we both
have to determine whether we're looking at the same figure, like as in we both
have zeros or and both have ones, or we have different ones, that you have a
zero and I have a one, or I have a one and you have a zero, and you'll hit same
or different. You'll play that say 10 times, and then at the end it'll grade
the how you did. And if you can
determine what the other person has, the same or different, then you, say all
ten times, that's very statistically significant or you can ... The more times
you can do it in a row without missing, the higher and higher the probabilities
go. Now you should score 50/50 just by chance. It should be a 50/50 thing.
Jimmy Church: That's
right.
Aneel Pandey: But,
if you have, if you can utilize some kind of nonlocal method to access that
information, then you can beat the probabilities. And that would be evidence
that you're using telepathy or telekinesis or ESP or some kind of paranormal
power, which of course would be nonlocal.
Jimmy Church: Now,
you could take, I mean obviously that same concept could be taken to many,
many, many, many different levels, and I totally get it playing it ten times.
You could do it a thousand, you could have a thousand level
game, right, but ... And ones and zeros is one thing; but it could be anything,
right? It could be anything. The ones and zeros side of it would prove the
50/50 situation, but it could be symbols. What about symbols?
Aneel Pandey: Right.
The symbols are representing on and off, true and false, black or white, one or
zero. And because that is a bit, and unlike atoms, which you can keep on
breaking down smaller and smaller and smaller, that is something that cannot be
broken down. That is the smallest amount of information that can exist. You
can't break it down any further than that.
Jimmy Church: Right,
right. Or, well, like I said, it could be words, "on" or
"off", could be the words, "black" or "white".
The symbols could be black squares or white squares, right, exact opposite. And
that's what I'm referring to.
Aneel Pandey: Right,
you're ... Yeah exactly. All you're deciding, and I guess that actually would
be a really good feature that you thought of, that you could maybe upload two
different symbols that are custom, maybe ones that, if you're playing with
somebody you know, something that you have in common, that if they're looking
at one thing versus the other, that's going generate a different response in
them, and so maybe experiment-
Jimmy Church: Bingo.
Bingo, a brother and sister, and they have pictures of their mom and dad,
right?
Aneel Pandey: Exactly.
Jimmy Church: So neurally, neurally, or, man I
hate to say paranormally, right, something that we can't explain. But maybe
that would enable the advancement of the connect between the two.
Aneel Pandey: Right.
Yes, I should hire you to come up with the feature set.
Jimmy Church: Now
this is what is interesting here, and I can't believe that nobody has come up
with this, and good luck with the game. It's gonna be
hugely successful no doubt. And I know that you're very close to launching it,
and you're feverishly writing right now and finishing things up, but could this
also be a training tool, right? And do you anticipate the more that you play
the game with the same person, that the connection would grow stronger, to
eventually, they could do 100% all the time.
Aneel Pandey:
Right, exactly. It could be used as a training tool, and also the great thing
about it is that those with, say Autism, or some kind of learning difference or
things like that ... There's a lot of anecdotal evidence out there that
autistics that have kind of purely unfocused awareness, they, obviously, they
can play the game, because they can select same or different. That's a concept
that is pretty basic there.
Jimmy Church: Right,
right, right.
Aneel Pandey: And
they may win.
Jimmy Church: Right,
right. Or somebody with a lower IQ ... Think about this, with somebody with a
higher IQ, the more that they play the game, you can't explain these things,
but what if their IQ started to increase. Maybe they were getting the neural
connections that were coming from the other end of the line, and that was
starting to work in their brain. The next thing you know, things are cleared
up. Somebody that had a stroke maybe, right?
Aneel Pandey: Right.
It could work that way. But yeah, it'll be interesting to see what the results
are.
Jimmy Church: Now,
what has your testing shown you so far with this? How excited are you?
Aneel Pandey: Oh,
very excited, yeah. And I think there are, when it comes to the paranormal and
things like that, and the testing and all, there are a lot of people that have
studied that and done research, and it's all out there and peer-reviewed and
everything like that. But the scientific community still tends to kind of
poo-poo that, and say, "Well, you know, it wasn't a strict experimental
situation," and so this is something where, rather than go by, "Well,
these were my results, and this is the results of the study," you get it,
and you try it, and you prove it to yourself and the person that you're playing
with. And that's going be the best way to convince you, rather than asking,
like going by some study, or what your friend tells you, or whatever. It's kind
of like a hands-on way to look at this.
Jimmy Church: Is
there the possibility of, you know, I'm thinking more like devil's advocate
here, but with somebody that is prone to seizures, right, and they're in a room
with bright lights. They're playing a game like this that they're connected
with somebody, that possibly things neurally could
even go wrong. Is that out there?
Aneel Pandey: I
guess anything could happen. You know, you're saying like if they're kind of
connected with this nonlocal field?
Jimmy Church: Right.
Aneel Pandey: That
it could just kind of overwhelm them?
Jimmy Church: And cross
circuit, yes. Yes, yes. And ... Because that's exactly what we're dealing with
here. I think it's a very exciting idea. The possibilities here are endless.
And then, what if your results ... And you have, you know, the leaderboard, and
you have people posting their names, and we've done 100 games in a row, and
we're at 75%, and me and my partner are getting better and better. You know,
it's a team thing. That you're gonna have skeptics
come in and go, "This is all BS, man. This is just all ... They're lucky.
It's impossible for this"-
Aneel Pandey: Right.
And that's why the whole point of this is to make it available to everyone to
download themselves and prove it to them. You don't really ... Because of
course there's gonna be skeptics when they play this
game, and we're ... The tentative title for it right now is Blinkadoo. If anyone's out there,
eventually searching for it, Blinkadoo will be the name of it. B-L-I-N-K-A-D-O-O.  I would just tell the skeptics, "Well, why
don't you download a copy and play it, and see how you do with it?"  And then that would convince them, I would think.
Jimmy Church: Now-
Aneel Pandey: You
know, what ... Go ahead.
Jimmy Church: Right,
50/50 should be the probability.  What if you had a string of zeros, zero percent.  Now, does that indicate
something?
Aneel Pandey: Yeah,
if it was consistent, yeah it would. I don't know what that would mean, but it
would mean something. That they're just doing the opposite of what they're
trying to do.
Jimmy Church: Think
about what I am suggesting here. It would still be neurally
connected, atomically connected, but something preventing that. Something
preventing it. You know, and look, and you can't change ... nature is nature.
Nature is nature. Timelines are timelines and you know the old paradox is with
time travel, right?  The gun jams, you get hit by a car, right? Something happens that your
dad still ... your grandfather still meets your grandmother at the movie
theater.
And your parents are born, right?
There's something that's always blocking ... what if they're in this game, that
it was 0% ... that you know in a row? That nature is like trying to stop the
... I don't know, I think the ideas behind this are really, really exciting. I
mean it's just a great idea and a great concept.
Aneel Pandey: Right,
and the thing about it is that you know, we want to use the scientific method
here. We want to break this down to as simple terms as we can and collect data
and then analyze it and then, once we have that information to get to the
bottom of what's going on here. You know, if we can readily observe you know non locality in a game or whatever that's going to create
more of a focus on figuring out why is this happening and I think it's going to
ultimately lead to us saying: yep we're in a simulation here. There's another
dimension out here that is, you know, interacting with us and we don't have
direct access to it but we can access it nonlocally through synchronicities,
through those types of means and this is like the first step.
Jimmy
Church : Do you
have a launch date?
Aneel Pandey: Hopefully
it'll be out by the end of the month.
Jimmy Church: You're
right there, you're right there. When the game launches we've got to get you
back and we're going to play it live on the show. Okay, that's what we're going
to do. And also we could do the game with the audience live, couldn't we? I
could connect with anybody, it doesn't matter right?
Aneel Pandey:
Right. As long as they have a cellphone.
Jimmy Church: Right,
I see a full, full show just dealing with this. Now here's the other part, just
like CERN and, you and I were talking about this, CERN creating black holes and
entrances into inter dimensional areas and so forth and that part of the
science exploding and they don't really know what they're doing, they're just
colliding particles and hoping ... but what if this game opened up a portal
between two people? Think about that, that's a crazy connection that you're
trying to achieve. I cannot wait to play it. Aneel, great conversation tonight
my friend. And as you get closer to a launch date you let us know so we can
announce it here on the show.
Aneel Pandey: Okay
well, thank you so much for having me on.
Jimmy Church: Thank
you Aneel, be safe out there. Keep us posted and the Fadernauts
really enjoyed the conversation tonight. Thank you so much my friend.
Aneel Pandey: Great,
goodnight.
Jimmy Church: Goodnight.
Jimmy Church: Hi
Maria, how are you?
Maria: Really good. I really loved that
interview. It really just opened a whole other area of taking kind of that, I
want to call it connection or that telepathy connection and putting a computer
twist to it. But I'm really excited to see what kind of program or game this
guy comes out with because I really want to see how it goes ... We've been
doing it for quite some time and we've been doing it for a couple years now.
And what I've found is that we have so many synchronicities now, between the
two of us. To our life, to just, even our family, I can tell if something's
going to happen with her. She can always read me you know from a distance. It's
gotten stronger over the years.
So I'm wondering if this is going to
kind of open the same channel for other people who try to do it. I mean this is
going to be another app. On your phone and help with that. I don't know but it
really fascinates me.
Jimmy Church: Yeah
well see, this is the thing. And Maria you're absolutely right, we all ... and
Aneel said this at the beginning. And he's right, we've all had those
experiences, right? You're thinking of your friend Lisa, you haven't thought of
her in 10 years, you haven't talked to her in 11 and the phone rings, right?

How many times have you said that in your life? Right? That is a trippy-
Maria: You know what, though? But with that though
it's with those people that you have that connection with because you're like
familiar with their vibration. You're familiar ... you already have a
connection with them.
Jimmy Church: Yep,
yep. I have a friend and he's probably listening right now. His name is Jim.
Jim out of Indianapolis and, old buddy of mine, and I swear ... I'm not
kidding, I will be just whatever and his name pops in my head and my phone
rings. And it's crazy, I can't even ... it's happened hundreds of times. I've
given up on that, right? Just whatever. But you're absolutely
right, it's somebody that you're connected with. But scientifically we
haven't applied it and what if Aneel is right on the thought of electronics,
the Internet, neurally, atomically connecting with-
Maria: I think we just haven't given it the
right name. I don't think we just ... I mean, we still haven't integrated that
whole other side with the technology side and you know, because we want to keep
it very separate because of course we'd never, you know, there's no relation I
mean and of course that's how I guess they want to think of it. But it's all
connected. So we just haven't named it. We still haven't given it a name, we
haven't ... I mean maybe 10 years from now maybe it'll have a new name.
Something we just haven't named it yet, but it's there.
And those connections come from people
we've already connected with. Good or bad people. I really believe that even if
you have a negative connection with somebody, you know you know ... when I have
an argument with someone and it's someone I don't get along with, somehow I can
always tell when that person's going to stop-
Jimmy Church: Well,
and do you think that the Internet, because now we are all connected, right?
We're all carrying cell phones, we're all on that wi-fi, we're all ... you
know, do you think that the Internet, because we're so connected now, globally,
do you think it's starting to connect us when we didn't think we had those
connections before?
Maria: I think people are becoming more aware
and I think we're kind of in that infancy of ... we're dumping everything we
can on the internet right now because we don't know how to really utilize the
Internet. But we're ... I think we're going to get better at it. I think that
the more we realize that we're more connected and ... than we thought and that
we're closer. You know that's actually a good question. I really think that ...
gosh, I don't know-
Jimmy Church:
You're going to get the game, right?
Maria: Oh I'm so
going to get it, I really want to see what this is about.
Jimmy Church: Totally.
Do you know who you're going to play it with?
Maria: I know exactly who I'm going to play it
with.
Jimmy Church: You've
got to call in. And you know I'm going to download it and I'm going to play
with all the Fadernauts, I think that would be an
awesome thing to do because of the technology that we have here with this show
and the connectedness that here with this show and the connectedness that we
have with our family that listens to this show, and to be able to think about
this, we have a video camera that's live in the studio; we have microphones
that are going out; we have Twitter, so everybody else can tell me exactly
what's going on on their end, and everybody is going
to see us playing ... how more connected can we be for an experiment than that
right? I mean that sounds like a ton of fun.
Maria: I think it is fun. You are now ... you
got the electrical connection. Now you're going to create more of a ... and I
hate ... and this is for a lack of a better word, the spiritual, the more
psychic connection, where, when we're not on the phone; when we're not
listening to your show, we're somehow going to think of each other. Does that
make sense?
Jimmy Church: Absolutely
Maria: I mean, you need ... so you're taking
to one more step above Twitter. It's not Twitter, we're not actually looking at
the device. It's going to take it to a different level. I think that's the
level we're missing with the Internet. Yes we're connected, we're reading, we're
live, we're here, but when we're not connected to a device, what's that next
step? It's this. It's this where we're going to start using that muscle
collectively and that's going to open up another ... you call it Google, yeah
they support all this.
 But yeah, I think you do. You start to connect, and you just
connect one cord, you start to connect a lot of them.
Jimmy Church: And
...
Maria: And I think that's where this ... go
ahead.
Jimmy Church: Totally,
and I'll tell you something else which is pretty trippy. If we start to, like
Aneel is, developing this type of technology for a game - the evolutionary
steps that the other video games that could be developed that are neurally connected, that you're in a paranormal sense,
right? And a telekinetic sense. The sky's the limit, isn't it? It's pretty
exciting to have him on the show and talk about this in a game concept that
nobody has really thought of before, one, but two, this show gets it. We get
exactly what he's trying to do here.
Maria: Oh, I was flipping out when I was
listening to this. I'm like oh my God, this guy needs to be heard ... heard on
a broader scale. But I don't know, I was like wow, I can see where this can go.
I can see where, knowing what I know based on what I do, this ... and being so
close to Silicon Valley, I thought oh my God, you just merged two worlds. I
want to see ... I want to see what the steps you're taking; I want to see what
you're using to develop this so-called muscle between the two people and how
easy ... and I'm really curious to see when you put it on the show, how easy it
is ... how easy it could be; how difficult it could be for people to connect,
and then you'll see who is really connected and who isn't.
Jimmy Church: Yeah,
you know who ... and thank you Maria for the phone call. You know who I would
like to play? Michael Shermer. Right? The skeptic, right? Get him on the show
so I can hear him go "ah, whatever, there's nothing going on here."
All right, I'll talk to you-
Maria: That's awesome, thank you so much for
taking the call. Bye.
Jimmy Church: What
a great phone call. God, isn't this exciting, and I would like to know who out
there is as excited about this as I am. I think it's great, and we'll be able
to actually think about this ... is playing the game ... there isn't a more
connected show to its audience than Fade
to Black. It doesn't exist. It just doesn't. And I'm referring to what goes
on with our chat rooms and Twitter, our family, the connectedness that we all
have with each other, right? We're all brothers and sisters here.  And we'll find out ... we'll find out
which two Fadernauts are the most connected.


Here is the message when i tried to upload sketch "emonTXV3_DirectSerial":
This report would have more information with
"Show verbose output during compilation"
enabled in File > Preferences.
Arduino: 1.0.6 (Mac OS X), Board: "Arduino Uno"
Binary sketch size: 7,176 bytes (of a 32,256 byte maximum)
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
What does "avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding" mean?
I have installed the driver of USB-TO-UART cable, and "/dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART" and "/dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART" showed up when I connected the cable to a USB port on my Mac.
My questions:
1. How to fix the error shown in the message?
2. Which serial port I should use, "/dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART" or "/dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART"?
3, Which Programmer should I select? there are several options, including AVR ISP, AVR ISP mkII, USB ASP, etc.
Thanks a lot.
Re: USBtoUART cable error: programmer is not responding
I only powered emonTx V3 by connecting it to usb port by using USB-to-UART cable. And, I didn't use any other power source, neither AC nor DC. Should I add another power source? I guess USB is good enough to provide power and voltage for uploading a sketch.
Re: USBtoUART cable error: programmer is not responding
Resolved. I connected the USB-TO-UART programmer to emonTX V3 in a wrong way. After I found "GND" mark on V3, I reversed my programmer to the other side (upside down), now it works!


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DEEP IMPACT (Paramount - 1998) Starring Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan Freeman, Maximilian Schell Screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin Produced by Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown Directed by Mimi Leder Running time: 120 minutes
** (out of four stars) Alternate Rating: C
Note: Some may consider portions of the following text to be spoilers. Be forewarned.
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The act of self-sacrifice is one of the most affecting things that can be depicted in a film, and it's something that DEEP IMPACT incessantly attempts to exploit throughout its running time. Blatantly attempting to tug on the heartstrings of its audience, the film wallows in the selflessness of its characters' actions to such an extent that it ultimately chokes upon its own nobility.
DEEP IMPACT is the first of 1998's aspiring major summer blockbusters, and a distinct one in that its focus is less on wanton destruction and more on characterization (no surprise when considering that its screenwriters are Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin). The film presents us with the scenario of a newly-discovered comet that's headed on a trajectory bringing it on a collision course with Earth, promising to destroy life as we know it, and then splinters off into three subplots: an enterprising young reporter, Jenny Lerner (Tea Leoni), embittered by her father's (Maximilian Schell) divorce of her mother (Vanessa Redgrave, wasted) and subsequent remarriage to a much younger woman; Leo Biederman (Elijah Wood), a high-school amateur astronomer who's the first to discover the comet (which consequently bears, in part, his name), and his sweetheart romance with neighbour Sarah (Leelee Sobieski); and a joint American-Russian space mission to intercept and destroy the interstellar threat, manned by cagey veteran Spurgeon Tanner (Robert Duvall) and a team of fresh-faced, media-savvy astronauts. Tying these threads together is U.S. President Beck (Morgan Freeman), who appears intermittently in order to make grave televised announcements to the public and recap what's happened in the film if you stepped out for popcorn.
While it's somewhat odd to find an effects-friendly scenario primarily driven by character dramatics rather than visual eye-candy, none of the three major vignettes are particularly compelling, and the treacly uplifting effect clearly desired by director Mimi Leder isn't achieved. The story arcs for each of the threads are laboriously familiar, and there are so many scenes which involve our characters ignoring instincts of self-preservation in order to do the right thing that scenes of poignancy become increasingly ineffective.
The weakest of the subplots is that of MSNBC reporter Jenny Lerner, who inadvertently stumbles across the news of the comet while investigating another story; the whole ELE political intrigue angle of the film is misguided and plays as a desperate plot device to move the story ahead. It doesn't help matters any that Ms. Leoni's performance is surprisingly lifeless -- she's perpetually shellshocked throughout the film, making her entire thread more distracting than engaging. (A scene which calls upon her to drunkenly cackle at someone's innocuously oblivious comment that "life goes on" is wretched both in its conception and execution.) Hinging upon the audience's involvement with the tenuous relationship between Jenny and her estranged father in the face of impending catastrophe, this subplot falls well short.
Similarly, there's much to be desired with Leo Biederman's story, which encapsulates the life-and-death drama of DEEP IMPACT. While President Beck informs the American public that heroic astronauts have been sent to eradicate the comet threat, a backup plan is nearing completion. A network of vast caves have been created to house one million Americans and ensure their survival for up to two years should the comet strike the planet; as well as a list of predesignated personnel, a national lottery, it is announced, will be held to select who will fill the shelters. In reality, of course, this proclamation would wind up being tied up in the courts for years (the clause which deems those over 50 to be automatically excluded from the draw in particular is a real ageism stickler), but no matter -- this is the movies, where people are far more altruistic; those who fail to be picked and are essentially condemned to death mostly stand outside the cave base camps and look mildly irritated.
Where DEEP IMPACT makes a bad step is when the young astronomer Leo, selected to go into the caves by virtue of his co-discovery of the comet, proposes to dreamgirl Sarah so that, as his wife, she'll also be given passage to the caves and be able to survive the impending disaster. Backed by a gentle musical interlude, it's a scene that's clearly intended to be sweet and touching, but given her opposition to the idea, I thought it was surprisingly extortionistic, akin to declaring "Marry me or die."
The film plays the Leo / Sarah subplot in hokey manner, wavering back and forth on whether or not she'll join him in the survival caves, and hits each note in predictable fashion; in a scene where Leo races around on motorcycle in desperate search of his beloved, there's one shot where he screeches his bike to a halt and tosses his head back to look over his shoulder as the music heroically crescendos which is such a familiar staple that it almost had me groaning aloud.
Meanwhile, Spurgeon Tanner and the crew of spacecraft The Messiah are given some artificial conflict of their own to deal with in addition to disabling the lethal potential of the comet. The young astronauts, led by Oren Monash (Ron Eldard), are resentful of Tanner's mere presence on the mission due to his age -- this is a young man's game, they believe. It's a ridiculous plot angle used for no other discernable reason than to spice up the subplot -- is there *any* doubt that the wily veteran will win the respect of his crewmates? -- but Mr. Duvall and Mr. Eldard do what they can to give it a credible spin. There's some obligatory space-bound suspense involving the astronauts navigating a dangerously-unstable comet surface, which is staged nicely but fails to surprise in its aftermath.
The one performer which comes out best in the film (other than James Cromwell, whose participation is essentially that of a cameo) is Mr. Freeman. The role is undemanding, but his sheer onscreen presence and the gravity with which he's able to convey his dialogue powers him through questionable material. To a large degree, Mr. Freeman is effective because for the most part his character doesn't interact with any of the film's other characters at all, but directly addresses the audience; essentially isolated, it's as if he's in his own separate (and superior) film.
While Ms. Leder depicts a world under siege, it's a shame that DEEP IMPACT chose to underplay the mass chaos and lawlessness that would legitimately accompany the advent of such a catastrophic event. (The fact that the country has been placed under martial law is touched upon, but with the arrival of the end of the world, that would likely mean little.) The film would be a much more visceral and provocative experience had it dared to show society coming apart at its seams, as in Steve De Jarnatt's MIRACLE MILE or in THE TWILIGHT ZONE's "The Shelter" episode. There's also the questionable inclusion of a shot of the Capitol under reconstruction -- it's obviously intended to be uplifting and life-affirming, but it's an odd choice to make when one considers that the destruction of the White House was by far the most popular -- nay, the *centerpiece* -- visual effects shot for Roland Emmerich's blockbuster INDEPENDENCE DAY which left crowds cheering in glee. Since audiences clearly enjoy seeing the landmarks of the American establishment being shredded, one wouldn't necessarily expect that their symbolic reconstruction would be a crowdpleaser.
For some reason, the film includes an early sequence in which an astronomer is killed in an automobile accident while scrambling to get the word out on the approaching killer comet. Since the impact of the incident is negligible -- the data ultimately does reach its intended parties -- and the character is never spoken of again, I'm left with the nagging suspicion that it was included primarily so that there'd be at least one explosion during the film's opening hour, but the scene laid the groundwork for something more potentially ironic; the world was left unprepared for the comet because the astronomer's mail server went down. Yeah, I know that feeling.
DEEP IMPACT is certainly more of a human drama than it is a disaster film (likely to the consternation of the audience drawn in by the promise of widespread destruction and mayhem) -- indeed, there's essentially only the single apocalyptic sequence which has been heavily featured in its promotional material -- and as a character-driven drama, it fails on that level.
- Alex Fung email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>web : http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aw220/
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