That is an interesting way of looking at it. I guess that might be possible.
To be honest though, I haven't heard anything from the ET's since I have known them that would lead me to believe....oh wait...yes, I have. Okay, scratch that.
LOL, perhaps you have a plausible scenario.
Just to be upfront about things, I am not aware of them doing "clones of a persons influence field" and then using that to do what you described above.
Could happen though. Interesting idea.
You and I are breaking ground on subject I don't think I have ever talked about. The highlighted part is something I want to talk about a bit further.
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My personal view, (and this view may be totally wrong), is that ET's perhaps might have studied consciousness in the past. A collection of statements across years makes that pretty obvious. I don't mean the esoteric type of study. I mean the technical type of study, how it works, what makes things tick etc.
My personal view, is that they made A.I. using a truncated design derived from living things. (pure supposition)
Why do I think that? Mainly because of the way the advisor described some of the Greys development. I never really treated the Grey Males as if they were A.I. bound in flesh and bone. But after a few years you do start to wonder if they are really sentient.
What throws me off from thinking that the Grey Males were A.I. is that Greys become frustrated, and sometimes become pretty temperamental. Yet, if you aren't used to looking at their Identity on a daily basis when interacting with them, you would pretty much say one Grey Male looks like another and besides a few subtle hints, they are almost indistinguishable from one another.
So I wasn't exactly surprised when the Advisor let me in on some details about how they are born and it revealed the fact that they are pretty much hardwired from the start. There is no real Grey school (at least not from the ones in my former ET group). They don't appear to have any childhood experience. Instead (she alleged) the Greys like the ones which stood next to me are born/mature inside a little floating artificial-womb of purple liquid.
A little cable is shown in some of her telepathic imagery but she was sparse on some of the details. She once said that the conscious side was programmed through the cable. She showed me some mental understandings of the process without giving away too much detail or explaining very much. I only understood from what she passed on that the Grey (I think?) appear to be psychically hammered (for lack of a better term) with a specific type of cognition from the cable linked to something (unknown). This happens as they mature in the sack.
As they evolve in the sack, the constant hammering of...?~cognitive behavior patterning~?... builds up the Grey into a specific mindset. Like programming a A.I. consciousness of sorts. After some time, the hammering is supposedly replaced with higher functioning cognitive routines. That is when the Grey actually begins to absorb the stipulated behaviors and some of the information they will later use.
She said a few times that once out of the sack, the Grey is then tested for viability and is then made into a part of the working daily routine.
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Might explain why they all think very alike. But I was embarrassed to think that in front of the Males, because I thought to myself (before I knew) that it was like discriminating against an asian by saying they all look the same. (Frankly, growing up I had trouble figuring out which Grey was which because they were pretty similar to one another.
There was one ET that told me that I can't distinguish the differences because my mind doesn't see enough details and didn't know what should be apparent. So because of that, I assumed the Grey weren't A.I. and I was just really poor at distinguishing them apart. (In my late teens I figured out the nuances between different Grey Males and while not big by human standards, they were noticeable when...ironically...I became more sensitive.)
So for that reason, internally I don't treat and still haven't treated the Grey Males as if they were artificial. I am unsure if they really are. Their emotions throw me off...however limited they may be.
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Man, I went on a tangent...
I am on the same page as you, I don't think the ET are geniuses all the time. I know for sure they use what is already pre-existing as it is evident if you ever hold a conversation about these topics.
I assume they must have figured out how consciousness works. The lessons the advisor showed me indicated that A.I. don't have souls. In other words, they are complicated etheric/metaphysical constructions with a host body of some kind. But they are missing the top half of what makes consciousness tick in living things.
In other words, A.I. supposedly won't have upper loop segments like you or I have. They may be put into a working biology but not necessarily be alive. (from a consciousness perspective)
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What I do want to pitch to you is the idea that if they make A.I. then obviously they can control it. It also opens the door that certain Telepathic ET can tap into their automations consciousness and control the artificial body of the A.I.
I recall a few encounters where people have said the ET openly expressed that. Where one second the artificial ET is doing it's normal routine and suddenly it acts differently as if some other ET is remotely projecting through it.