November 15, 2003: UFO Reports - Peter Davenport | Nanotechnology & Fuzzy Logic - Bart Kosko
Podcast: The Art Bell ArchivePublished On: Mon Jun 30 2025
Description: Art Bell opens with Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, who presents a major sighting case from the November 8th lunar eclipse. Witnesses from Boston and New York City describe clusters of lights moving in formation across the eastern seaboard, with Jeff in Manhattan reporting V-shaped formations splitting and reconnecting over the city from an 11th-story rooftop. Davenport compares the event to the 1997 Phoenix Lights and laments the total silence from major newspapers despite objects passing directly over Boston and New York.Art then administers the John Lear test to both guests, playing the infamous briefing scenario and asking whether they would disclose the information to the American public. Davenport argues firmly for full transparency, citing the First Amendment and his confidence in the resilience of the American people. Bart Kosko, professor of electrical engineering at USC, agrees and adds that collective intelligence through open information would yield better solutions than secrecy.Kosko then shifts the conversation to the frontiers of nanotechnology, discussing carbon nanotubes, their potential for computing and materials science, and his provocative book Heaven in a Chip. He proposes that consciousness could eventually be transferred from biological brains to silicon, offering a form of technological immortality as processing power surpasses neural capacity within 10 to 15 years.
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