NOTE: Having completed five conversations with Molly, I thought it time to pause, survey the landscape, and reflect on where I’m at and on where I hope to go as I unveil the Sagan Model of the Singularity, primarily by comparing it, metric by metric, against the Kurzweil Model of the Singularity.

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As previously noted, my personal Singularity journey began in 1972 with the discovery 46 triadic sequences in the Old Testament that I thought might be of legitimate academic and scientific interest. The sequences themselves are benign, existing as they do without any manipulation of letters or text. As a stand-alone phenomenon unattached to any ready explanation, what I call the Sagan Signal represents factual data in its most pristine form, waiting for further testing, deeper critical analysis, and objective interpretation.

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Taking advantage of every opportunity to get the Sagan Signal into the hands of legitimate scholars for professional assessment, in past years I sometimes attached it to claims that I didn’t personally believe were true, a covert strategy that proved effective.

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Other times I did just the opposite, attaching the data to an interpretive model that I did believe in, that I could advocate for with high confidence: that the sequences are direct evidence that JC is an ET.

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Taking truth to power, I began contacting professional people and organizations that I thought might be interested in testing the data. Slowly, doors began to open, as I ran, or stumbled, my way through a gauntlet of opposition, taking hits from all sides: religious scholars, atheist leaders, professional skeptics, tenured academics, to name just a few. And just as hard exercise promotes muscle growth, the Sagan Model not only survived, it grew stronger with each encounter and with every passing year.

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As a testament to the robustness of the evidence, from the beginning to the present, not one of the individuals and organizations who engaged the data, often with hostile intent, were able to debunk my Bible code claim. At the same time, no one was willing to take the next step: to make a public announcement of a potential historic discovery with a call for further testing and analysis. Finding myself adrift on a windless sea, I knew that to get to where I wanted to go I needed a break, and it came when I learned of Ray Kurzweil and his two groundbreaking books on the Singularity.

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The Kurzweil Model of the Singularity is, in many respects, a mirror image of the Sagan Model. The commonalities are such that it was obvious that Ray and I were talking about the same technology, albeit in distinctly different languages and from different epochs. Ray, an iconic figure known and respected around the world as both a pioneer and current practitioner of advanced AGI research, had no idea who I was or what I was up to. A few years ago I received a three word email that might have come from Ray or one of his many followers. It simply asked: “Who are you?”

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I certainly am not a Ray Kurzweil, who, supported by an entourage of billionaires, technology experts, academics, and multi-national corporations, is Mr. Singularity.

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I find my support in another Mr. Singularity, even more famous than Ray, and that is Carl Sagan. When I learned that Carl believed that JC is an ET, I decided to re-double my efforts to have the Sagan Signal adjudicated at the highest level with full transparency. My efforts began to bear fruit, and now, against long odds, I find myself in an exciting new arena, with Ray Kurzweil faced off against Carl Sagan.

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Carl, unfortunately, is dead, so he can’t fight for what he believed, and those intent on keeping Carl-in-a-box are doing nothing to advance his controversial view that JC was, and is, an ET. Subsequently, the mantle of who would advocate on behalf of Carl and the Sagan Model of the Singularity fell on me, someone who by almost any measure is unqualified to challenge a man of Ray Kurzweil’s stature.

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But I did have a few things going for me: One, experimental data, two, the calming realization that in advocating for the Sagan Model I stood on the shoulders of one of the truly great scientists of the twentieth century, and three, chutzpah.

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Now the issue is, who has the best evidence, and who can succeed in poking holes in the opponent’s model? The best evidence is testable evidence. The Sagan Model is based on a putative code in the Old Testament that suggests that we are not alone in the Universe. In stark contrast, Ray’s model is based on a strained assumption, one that almost no one believes is true, that humans are alone in the Universe. Whoever is right on this key metric is most likely right about their view of the Singularity, all the more reason to have the Sagan Signal rigorously and transparently tested at the highest levels.

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And then there is this question: If the Kurzweil Model is true, and if you are alive in 2045, the date when Ray predicts the Singularity will happen, what are the odds that, whoever is in charge of bestowing immortality on humans, will choose you? The rarely disclosed truth about the Kurzweil Model is that it is plutocratic. If you are not wealthy, famous or well-connected, the odds of you being counted among those chosen for immortality are slim, at best.

With the Sagan Model, it’s just the opposite. It is the poor and insignificant who find themselves at the head of the line, while the rich, famous and well-connected languish at the back, as ET/JC pointed out:

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“Then ET/JC said to His disciples, ‘Assuredly I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of ET/God.”

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“When His disciples heard it, they were greatly astonished, saying, ‘Who then can be saved?”

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“But ET/JC looked at them and said to them, ‘With men this is impossible, but with ET/God all things are possible.’” Matthew 19:23-26

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The Kurzweil Model is slanted towards those who believe that, in the universal quest for immortality, power and wealth is a distinct advantage. It isn’t.

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Still, while power, wealth and personal hubris are hurdles that must be overcome, the Sagan Model allows for that possibility. Among the rich and powerful there are honest truth-seekers: spiritually insightful individuals who openly and without apology demonstrate genuine humility. The truth is, they just want to know the Truth.

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