The following is a conversation with Diana Walsh Poussalca, a professor of philosophy and religion at UNCW and author of American Cosmic, UFOs, Religion and Technology.

This book is one of the most fascinating explorations of the interconnected nature of technology, belief, and the mystery of alien intelligence.

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As a side note, let me say, as I did in the recent video on how many intelligent alien civilizations are out there, that the nature of alien life, intelligence, and how they might communicate with us humans is likely stranger than we imagine.

And perhaps stranger than we can imagine.

What is most fascinating to me is how the belief in the communication with such civilizations changes people's understanding of the world, and, as Diana argues, the technology we create.

Technological innovation itself seems to manifest the mythology in our collective intelligence that turns the seemingly impossible into reality, just a matter of years, through the belief of individual humans that carry out that innovation.

The nature and power of this belief in both technology and extraterrestrial intelligence is mysterious and fascinating.

Perhaps holding the key to us humans, understanding our own mind, our consciousness, and engineering versions of it in the machines we create.

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