Crop Circle/Avebury Wiltshire/2nd July 2021

Another year of fantastic crop circles appearing mysteriously on farmland in Southern England. This one is a Fibonacci Spiral inscribed in a Hexagon. Beautiful sacred geometry.

Perhaps not coincidentally, a circle is the easiest pattern for hoaxers to create. Only relatively few hoaxers have actually been caught, but those who have been caught come to the fields with pretty simple technology.

The designs for those hoaxers were prepared and planned ahead of time. The tools were various size light boards with various modes of attachment to the feet for knocking down crops. There were also various height poles to stake an anchor point at one end for a center to attach light ropes or strings. The hoaxers would pound in one or more center stakes and walk out the premeasured distances using precut lengths of rope and then attach the boards to their feet. They would grab the knot in the rope at predetermined distances and walk the circumstance (or part of the circle for intricate designs) to create the circle pattern. They would then finish the job all in one night with the cover of the surrounding crops to avoid being discovered.

This is certainly not to say that catching only one or two hoaxers out of the many hundreds of crop circles over the years proves that these others were not extraterrestrial in origin, but certainly did provide plausible explanation for how it could have been done.

What about this one, that appeared today. If hoaxers, then how do you account for such a magnificent creation so soon after the previous one, unless, off course, they are a different group of hoaxers, but I seriously doubt it. I also doubt this was created by hoaxers. Lovin' the synchronicity, though. :-)

Crop Circle/Longwood Warren Hampshire/4th July 2021.

Hybrid Solipsism~ well, that’s a unique perspective I hadn’t thought of, jdlaw. To be honest, I ‘think’ I am truly conscious in ‘this universe,’ so it’s a tad disconcerting for me to think I could be interacting with a non-player character with the moniker jdlaw. Kinda creeps me out. 😆

It is just a feeling, but seems to me that consciousness may not be just an all or nothing sort of thing. I mean maybe an insect like a beetle, for example, has some very small level of consciousness, just not enough to really detect it from our perspective. Lately, I have been thinking of it more in the terms of just what I call "first person experience."

In other words, the simple act of looking at something and recognizing it (for the quality of what it is) - is a pretty "epiphenominal" thing. I mean, we have self-driving cars with all sorts of sensors and computers that can drive themselves. Isn't that "sentience" when you think about it? It senses things (sentient) but doesn't really "recognize" anything. It will sense other cars and objects on the road and avoid them, but does that self-driving car really ever just "think" or "ponder" to itself, "oh that's another car." Of course not. It is not programmed that way.

Of late, I think I have discovered that all "first person experience" really is - nothing but an evolved error. I mean machine sensors have no ability for error. A light sensor detects a wavelength of light and whatever its range of acuity it has, it registers it and done. Insects like beetles mostly do the same, but in order to realy react, it has to have some form of reflex program. But also ilike when swatting at that annoying fly, there is still a small bit of "fight or flight" fear reflex. That is the "error" part I am talking about. Instead of just sensing light, it has to recognize some form of pattern, it has to do something more. And to do something more, the first step is that the sensor data has to somehow register an inconsistency (or error) where that sensor data is something more than just data. That error is what then allows for the fight or flight.

This ability for sensor data error then slowly over eons became an evolutionary advantage. The ability to pause during a pondering of this error is having our minds full of only error. We never know exactly what is true or false, but we ponder and pause when we think the error data is close enough. It is the very thing that allows us to grow intellectually.

So, yes we are conscious and self aware, but probably only a very small level of conscious and self aware that is possible. If we could allow ourselves and truly had the ability to be even more observant and aware, I think we could learn that we have other levels of consciousness in those other multiverses where such higher consciousness is possible.

Other than that, I guess I don't have much thought on the issue of how hidden realities could result in crop circles

Couldn't agree more, Bot. Mr jdlaw always has new and interesting ideas to think about. The error angle is one I have to ponder. As is the solipsistic programmable multiverse view.

I do remember hearing some of the crop circle creators interviewed (I think it's unfair to call them hoaxsters if they readily admit what they are doing) and they claimed to be inspired to create the design, as if it weren't a conscious analytic decision on their part, but rather acting as a medium in a way. Essentially, they felt a paranormal interaction with a higher intelligence telling them what to create.