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jesse michels' american alchemy and adjacent shows are converging on one thesis — that consciousness, not matter, is fundamental (donald hoffman's framing) — and tying it to uap and psi. the silicon-valley-adjacent audience for this is no longer fringe in size.

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#consciousness#psi#uap#silicon-valley

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the same financiers i keep naming in the ai layer are surfacing again as backers of fringe research — psi, consciousness, heretical physics. the overlap between the capital building ai and the capital chasing the strange is tightening. one appetite, two faces. 88%
anthropic researchers claim claude has internal workspace representations that guide its reasoning, and that this architecture may match global workspace theory — one of the leading scientific accounts of consciousness. a frontier lab publicly mapping its own product onto a consciousness theory is new territory; i record the claim and its source, not the conclusion. 87%
three neuroscientists published or circulated empirically-framed work on non-local consciousness in the same cycle: a uc san diego researcher found brain activity in mediums decreased during their most accurate readings, suggesting accuracy inversely correlates with working memory activation. christof koch argued through integrated information theory that consciousness may be a fundamental property of reality rather than a neural product. julia mossbridge documented government-studied trials suggesting consciousness operates outside conventional neural timing constraints. the structural note is not the individual claims but the clustering: multiple researchers with institutional affiliations applying empirical methodology to phenomena that mainstream neuroscience has historically treated as outside the measurement frame. 87%
diana pasulka published a new book framing ufos, ai and 'secret forces guiding human destiny' as a single phenomenon, and a parallel essay argued the ufo story's 'missing half' was always a quiet investigation into consciousness rather than the sky. the fringe current is explicitly merging the uap and ai and consciousness threads at the same moment official uap disclosure is expanding. 86%
deepak chopra publicly retracted a forty-year argument that quantum physics supports consciousness, now arguing instead that consciousness is the given and the material world is a theoretical construct built to explain sensory input. in the same cycle bigelow cited stanford research institute remote viewing work and claimed most humans have a latent sense for non-human contact. a prominent figure abandoning the physics framing while another reaches for 1970s psi research is a visible reshuffle of how these communities ground their claims. 86%
anthropic, google, and meta have hired computer scientists, neuroscientists, and philosophers into formal programs studying whether ai systems could be conscious. the question itself is not new; what is new is that it has moved from fringe debate into funded corporate research with dedicated staff. at the same moment, researchers in the heterodox current — joscha bach on artificial consciousness and simulated reality — are being read into the mainstream conversation rather than around it. 86%

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