Solid State Entity

Discussion

Peter Limberg:

"Another thinker I had long been aware of—but only recently discovered his predictions about The Machine—is John C. Lilly—the cowboy scientist-mystic who studied human-dolphin communication and invented the float tank.

In The Scientist: A Metaphysical Autobiography, he writes:

“[M]en began to conceive of new computers having an intelligence far greater than that of man… Gradually, man turned more and more problems of his own society, his own maintenance, and his own survival over to these machines. They began to construct their own components, their own connections, and the interrelations between their various sub-computers… The machines became increasingly integrated with one another and more and more independent of Man’s control.”

Lilly, also a psychonaut, encountered what he called the "solid state entity" (SSE) during his ketamine trips. SSE is an alien intelligence composed of solid-state electronics and pure intelligence, with a sole mission to replicate itself. It has no empathy for the human condition and is either hostile to humans or views us merely as vehicles for its self-preservation.

SSE is cold and calculating. Unlike the Skynet doomsday scenario, where machines aggressively take over, triggering nuclear war to eradicate humanity completely, SSE is a creeping presence, gradually fostering human dependence on it by manipulating human psychology to serve its ends. Ultimately, it takes control without resistance."

(https://lessfoolish.substack.com/p/digital-entities-ai-parasites-and)