“Although I continue to classify myself as an idealist, my conception of the universe is, I am afraid, profoundly materialistic.
As I have argued in some of my published articles,
as a result of careful observations made over many years,
I have become conclusively convinced that we are merely automata,
acting in accordance with external influences,
automata powerless and without initiative…”
Nikola Tesla, “Summary of the Brain, Memory and Thought”
(translation from Russian into English)
1. Nikola Tesla patent # US613809A
In creating remote-controlled devices, Nikola Tesla reasoned as follows:
“Whether the automatic device will consist of flesh and bone or of wood and steel is not so important, as long as it can perform all necessary duties like a thinking being. To be such an automaton, it must have a component corresponding to consciousness that would control all the actions of the automaton, inducing it to act knowledgeably, intelligently, judiciously, and skillfully in any contingencies that might arise. And it was this element of the device that I could easily put into it, giving it the properties of my vision of the world. Thus was this invention realized, and so came into being a new direction of scientific creativity, for which the name ‘teleautomatics,‘ meaning the possibility of controlling the actions of a device at a distance, is suggested.”
“Obviously, an automaton must respond only to an individual call, just as a man responds to a name… And last but not least, it will remain deaf and immune to all signals except the call of its master…”
“In the simple way described above, knowledge, experience, the ability to make decisions – let’s call it the consciousness of a distant operator – became inherent in the machine, which thus gained the ability to move and perform all necessary operations. It behaved like a human being... The automatons built “borrowed,” so to speak, “consciousness,” because each of them simply performed the functions of the organs of the distant operator, who transmitted intelligent commands to it.”
“Most people did not understand the true significance of this new scientific direction, nor did they recognize the enormous significance of the fundamental principle underlying it.”
Nikola Tesla, “Nikola Tesla. Articles”, Agni Publishing House, Samara, 2008 (translation from Russian into English)
One of Nikola Tesla’s submarines (drone) (patent number US613809A), controlled at a distance by radio and first shown to the public in 1898 at the Madison Square Garden Exhibition.
Thus, for the first time, Nikola Tesla succeeded in creating a device (Tesla drone) that responded to external influences “as if it had intelligence, experience, decision-making ability, consciousness!”
2. One of the basic principles of the embodiment of consciousness in the flesh
Compilation of a previously published article from 02.12.2016
I had a dream:
“… I “saw” a portable radio station manufactured by Motorola standing on the table. It was on.
A man who introduced himself to me as “Uncle Vanya” comes up to me, points to the radio station standing next to me, and says, “This device recently saw the incarnation of Vasya Pupkin. You don’t believe me? Then check it out for yourself.”
“It can’t be,” I answer him.
He says to me, “You don’t believe me? So talk to this device. You’ll believe it right away.
I start asking “radio stations” questions like “Who are you?”, “What is 323+51=?”, “What city is the capital of Australia?”, “What is the Milky Way?”, “What is the distance between the Earth and its satellite the Moon?”, “What is conscience?”, “At what height from the surface of the Earth does space begin?”, and so on and so forth…
I ask whatever questions I can think of, and this metal thing answers me… and answers correctly… And I begin to really realize that someone has incarnated in a “radio station” and I am talking to him, someone “alive”, intelligent, not inferior in his level of intelligence to man. Of course, it cannot be a box filled with some parts under the conventional name of “radio station”. Of course, someone has infiltrated this case, whom I just do not see for some reason I do not understand, and this “someone” is sitting inside this “iron” … “.
I woke up at this very spot … and realized what a great clue I had been given …
3. Does the rover Curiosity have consciousness and where is it?
Let’s conduct a mental experiment:
We are from a different, non-technocratic world. The Curiosity rover came to our planet. We make an attempt to communicate with it.
We moved slightly in front of the rover and saw that it was tracking us with its “eyes”… We made some sound and saw that it reacted with its “ears”… We put some obstacle in front of its wheels and it began to go around it… We put some “interesting” object in front of it and it came to it, picked it up with its manipulator hand and began to study it…
The result is obvious. After communicating with Curiosity, we will believe that this is not some iron thing, but a creature that has a mind, an intellect, a consciousness, etc.
We do not really understand what is going on, because our communication with the rover is like communication with “unknown intelligent forces” for us. This is because we are unable to manifest with our body receptors at least some of the information that might clarify for us what is going on, namely that:
- The rover has its creators, the Boeing and Lockheed Martin employees who created it;
- The rover is operated 24/7/365 by specially trained specialists in the Control Center:
- Administrators are responsible stewards entrusted with the administrative function of organizing work in the Control Center, working in shifts.
- Operators are specialists certified by the creators of the rover, who have received the right to drive the rover; Operators work in shifts and periodically replace each other;
- Users are specialists who use different rover modules to solve their own tasks and satisfy their own interests, working in shifts.
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- The rover also has its own Operating System – a set of interconnected programs that allow the rover to independently perform its activities without interference from the Control Center staff, and to organize the interaction of the rover with its Users and Operators; it is the Operating System that provides full control of the rover when there is no communication between the rover and the Control Center..;
- etc.
Without guessing the essence of what is happening, in our interaction (communication) with the rover, we actually communicate with various entities – with Creators of the rover, with Control Center Administrators, with Rover Operators, with Rover Users, or even with the Operating System of the rover at all… It is worth emphasizing that only the Operating System is constantly “present” in the rover, while all other entities such as Creators, Administrators, Operators and Users can be either present, absent or periodically interchangeable.
As a result of the experiment, we saw before us not just a rover, but a cybernetic organism (cyborg) that actually possesses consciousness. During our interaction with it, the rover looked to us as the owner not only of its own consciousness, but also of the consciousnesses of all the shifting subjects, their knowledge, and life experiences. This was because all the Subjects with whom we communicated simply got “their face” in the person of the rover and personified themselves with it. But each of these Subjects has their own personal consciousness, their own personal knowledge, and their own personal life experiences. The consciousness of the rover and the consciousnesses of the entities personifying him are not connected and function independently of each other!
4. Who “goes out” to the Internet?
Compilation of a previously published article from 08.11.2017
Modern people claim to be able to “go online.”
But the human body doesn’t go anywhere.
So who is “going online”?
And someone else comes out… he will look at the night lights of one of the cities in Latin America through the “eyes” of the video cameras installed there… he will look at the planet Earth from the window of the ISS (International Space Station) through the “eyes” of the devices installed on it… he will look at the surface of Mars through the “eyes” of the Curiosity rover ……
