TEDxBrussels - Jacques Vallée - A Theory of Everything (else)... 

Anyone who thinks this guys is a "crackpot" literally has not a clue what he is talking about. This man is one of my personal hero's, he is a scientist in the truest sense. He is an investor in high technology, a computer scientist and astronomer. He is the smartest man ever to study UFOs, was 30 yrs ahead of his time & most students of UFOs are yet to catch up. He has been able to keep his feet in both worlds without losing credibility which is no mean feat!

In the next two years people will realize how far ahead Mr Vallee was with his theories / explanations of everything UAP related. Brilliant man. He should be nominated for a Nobel Prize.

As someone who has an advanced degree in physics, Mr. Vallee is anything but a "crackpot." These views expressed here are among the most cutting edge concepts in the field. Out of curiosity, what are the credentials of the local yokels claiming that he doesn't know what he is talking about? Ahhh, I see . . . . .

A thinker ahead of his time. Few intellectuals & scholars are willing to tackle the "phenomena." I believe when we look back many centuries from now w/ greater knowledge his name & work will shine through

The best thing about Vallée is the reason he started looking into UFOs, never had the slightest interest until watching a scientist he was working with destroy pictures and he realized odd things sometimes occur but no one was studying it. Almost all of science runs on grants and there's not always enough for everyone the thought of science going unstudied upset him enough to dedicate his life to it he knew hard that road would be but did anyway

What he hints at is science, particularly physics or quantum dynamics will hit a wall eventually, and acknowledge reluctantly variables of preternatural phenomenon…a heretic to scientific zealots, but to those whom experience synchronicities too many times in existence to label them coincidence he is an oracle bard of respite for the spirit.

Brillaint scientist! and ahead of his time! Personnally I agree with him regarding his theory on the UFO phenomenon.

Jacque's talk was great, what he says seems to be closely reflecting what Thomas Campbell and many others are saying. All the people I admire the most are in agreeance that this reality that we perceive is only a small part of a larger framework, and that consciousness goes on after physical death. I really, really hope that they are right.

I could happily listen to this man for hours and hours. He's an absolute Genuis and years ahead of everyone else in the study of the ufo phenomenon. Love him

this man is a genius !

A true hero. If there is a God, please give this man a few more decades of health. It'll be such a huge loss for humanity when he is gone.

i like his approach. he doesnt 'distract' away from the core focus. he gradually coaxes you and politely compartmentalizes what 'physics' as an example, should do and what they shouldn't do.

No one on Earth knows as much about the UFO phenomenon as this man. Passport to Magonia completely made me rethink Irish folklore in terms of alien visitations.

Any U.S. president should have Jacques Vallee as a member of her or his team to provide crucial input.

his books are truly amazing - have read all of them. glad to have seen him speak in my hometown at a wonderful venue.

I was on a date with a girl in college. We were out at the bar drinking and decided to just walk home. It was longer than we thought, but decided to keep walking. On our walk we stopped on the sidewalk and were talking for a minute. There was a car down the road turning left and would be coming down the road we're we were once the light turned green. The girl I was with looked at the car, which was still at the light and not moving, and told me that the car was going to hit us. I said, "ya right"! About 15 seconds later the light turned green and the car begin to turn and travel parallel to us. The car suddenly turned towards us, jumped the curb, and was heading right for us. We grabbed each other and jumped in grass and bushes. We were nearly killed by the car and the girl new before it happened. It was such a crazy experience.

absolutely brilliant and truly open minded.

I have such respect for Jacques Valler I have read his works over the years and have great admiration for his courage to persevere and to ask the hard questions

Not a dynamic speaker, but *a brilliant mind striving to understand "the nature of reality" and the so-called "UFO" phenomena "outside the box" and inside The Matrix."* For the record: I concluded that Dr. Vallee was right about 'ufos' way back in 1968, after my own exhaustive research on the subject. it has a spiritual dimension, not just physical or organic or technological.

This is Brilliant, pointed out exactly what is needed for further development and progress in Physics.

if they interact, then they become part of the same universe. so sprit is subject to laws of physics. most prominently 'entropy'. I'd say there's such a thing as soul, and it is just 'information' on a substrate. Software is a good analogy to soul. So if the brain is the computational substrate (hardware), then the soul is the 'software'. There is some independent existence by the fact that it just transcends the substrate that it is on, not because it's beyond this world.

Jacques Vallée should hang out with Stephan Wolfram. What he is talking about with information and energy being two sides of the same coin comes down to the universe being computational, and that is exactly what Wolfram and his team are working on.

Jacques Valles is iconic

He is mentioned in both of DW Pasulka's recent book, amazing guy

information physics... I've been torturing my brain for years now, trying to figure out the implications that the well-proven phenomenon of quantum superposition (tweaked into macroscopic objects btw) would have on both consciousness and the collective world we all share. this might offer a clue. Absolutely brilliant, as usual from JV.

Love this man's voice. Nice to fall asleep too.

I have the utmost respect for Mr. Vallee; it is unfortunate that he still references Uri Geller, (the fraud) at this late date. (2011)

Jaques Valle'e is absolutely brilliant

Coincidences could inform you that you are part of a bigger life than you suspect.

Love this man! This is awesome.

Wow! He said what I have believed in most of my life! That is: The real creator (if existed) is actually creating the universe and keeping it from vanishing at every single moment.

This is one of jacques best short presentations. This is so aligned with my own unexplainable experiences and my emerging new world view.

My mind is blown away, every time I listen to Mr. Vallée...

Brilliant! Thank you for this :)

Seth has introduced some of this information from the early 60's. Vallee is one of my favorite authors.

What a wise and thoughtful speaker and storyteller.

With quantum computing is in it's early developmental research, you eventually may get the result even before posing the question!

Firstly Vallee is a visionary & thinks outside the box. He approaches any phenomena as a scientist and rather than simply make sweeping statements like are listed here. "nonsense.....pseudo-science", what are these comments based on, something you simply disagree with or is this ignorance yet again? Vallee is a computer scientist, information is his game. Before commenting read his books and papers.

Read his book Dimensions.... wow!

Thank you sincerely for beign an another human who thinks along these tracks. I thought I was the only one Now I have two strongholds to rely Thank you Mr Jaques Vallé and prof Philippe Guillemant Lately I have been interested in how the consept of ”now” emerges and more generally how do dimensions come by. How do they combine and eventually give rise to the more derived consepts such as ”time” that do not exist per se.

YES, SIR! I was listening to this video for the first time. A couple minutes into the lecture I got into a completely unrelated and very immotional, conversation with my wife. 15 seconds after we had finished speaking, I said the same and absolutely unrelated phrase/words to her. It happens far more often than can be articulated. No reasoning for it. The subject matter could be meaningful or trivial. I don't know how or why. No lottery #'s yet, but such a broad spectrum of subject "Coincidence". I don't know what to "think" about it.

The last step is heavy, but is great. Consciousness traverses associations. It's our consciousness that creates the illusion of space and time. In other words, the physical word is a creation of consciousness.

I'm in awe of this man. It's my most sincere wish that he is recognized during his lifetime for his genius. Information theory is where it's at (I find it disturbing that Claude Shannon is not as common a household name as Einstein). Keep on keeping ok Jaques!

The 2 physics he speaks of (energy and information) are the ancient concepts/‘gods’ of Hinduism called Siva and Sakti

Plus he has an MS in Astrophysics and a PhD in Computer Science...

I wonder if the "Missing Sister" he kept talking about (at a TED conference in Belgium) was a reference to the Dutroux affair.

Such a fascinating man, it would not surprise me in the slightest if Mr Vallee is also a real magus!

I have to listen to this again, Dummy vs Quantum Mechanic

I've had many situations... where I was oddly able to have influence on moments to happen, which would not normally happen. One example, is that my roommate of the time was an early to bed type of person. She worked a full time job, and started early in the AM. I was on my way home at 2am or so, one night, and was starving. I knew that my roommate would be asleep, but I willed her to be up and cooking something so hard! I thought deeply about it.... and when I got home, she was making eggs!!!

"Consciousness is generating the illusion of space & time." Of course, that's it. Information comes to us in dreams, visions, or happenstance & we must translate it into our 3-dimensional existence. So we put it through a kind of strainer or filter of space & time.

I know him and believe him to be one of the great minds of this century

Does he mean we need to explore the human consciousness because it holds the secret to our existence?

You can see the audience begin to squirm when it starts to get a little "woo."

It's a shame this doesn't have more views.

An amazing man !!!

Charles Fort was an avid collector of co-incidences

Brussel is in Belgium.

Someday they explain that Dejavu is nothing more than the brain perceiving multidimensional information

I hope so, Wonders In The Sky was just a historical collection of case summaries, many of which were fully described in his other books. He should at least release new editions the Alien Contact Trilogy. That's his most fascinating and well written work, and they're not available in e-book form.

He makes sense to me. There is no such thing as time. It's all the same day. Everything simply deteriorates, and gravity doesn't exist. Denser objects simply fall downward if submerged in a less dense solution.

I would like to know what Mr Valee thinks, if anything, about the goings on in a particular area in France. The Languedoc Roussillon region. What does he think of that? I just wonder.

Beautiful

The physical universe and the spiritual universe inter-act and interface in ways few understand or even give credence to. yet it is vital to see AT LEAST this much: the spiritual universe is about pristine & eternal IDEALS. the earthly/physical is about energy and matter acted upon by intelligence & WILL.{which is a principle trait of Spirit}

I liked Jacques approach in ufology back in the time. Now I need to read more about this physics of information. Are there scientists researching/having written books about that?

Synchronicity: Happening across this video a few hours after watching a documentary about TWA800...and then hearing Jacques Vallée, whose Ted Talk you happened across through a completely different RU-vid path, using the incident surrounding TWA800 as an example of synchronicity. That was what happened to me today.

I ❤ THIS!

Mind blown.

What if, in the future, time travel has been discovered. Every trip back in time would just create another parallel reality, which we are unaware of. Observation and intensions do change the future, if you do nothing, it is still a decision, and future events will unfold. Something as simple as doing laundry, making a phone call or a post, changes what will happen in the future, ever so slightly as to change how events unfold, based on the choice you made. ...some thoughts after the green tea

"In all systems, there can be no new information without an intelligent, purposeful sender." - Werner Gitt, professor, German Federal Institute of Information Technology, world's foremost authority on information theory and the properties of information

It's the first time I've seen the clock for the amount of time the speaker is allowed to speak counting down on the stage

Interesting point.

When i was a boy, i was shooting darts alone, outside the clubhouse of my fathers fotball team. After shooting some darts, one dart, just before it was about to hit the target-board, the dart took a 90 degree turn and then it turned 90 degrees again around the house-corner i ran after and i saw it was going straight all the way all the way to the other side of the far side of the house, turning again around the next corner and apperantly another kid was playing there and the dart hit him right in the back of his head. Pritty deep to. I was trying to explaine to everyone it wasnt me who did it, but we where the only two who where outside and i was the only one playing with darts..and until this day 30 years later im still the one who threw a dart into the backhead of my fathers friend kid. They are still close friends so i hearit alot... But i sware to god, it wasnt me. Someone or something intelligent was controlling the dart. In real life i have to take it ofc, but the truth is that it wasnt me..

Is that Chris Mellon in the audience at 11:15?

the third thing that disgusted me was particles

Holography of i-reflection containment in this log-antilog relative-timing standing wave-packaging phenomenon.., that is why these word-labels make the degree of Actual Intelligence information In-form-ation we can imagine we understand. Excellent video, if you have a mind for it.

Self-reflection as a fundamental constraint. Expand the Anthropic Principle to a Stronger form. Recognize that things do not exist in the absence of a cognitive representation of them. Independent thingness is an artefact of consciousess and in the absence of conscious self-awareness there is no definite thingness. The universe in and of itself cannot be efficacious without having its effect upon some conscious domain and no conscious domain can exist which does not relate back to a self-model.

I really think one might go crazy if they study this stuff, the stuff of future and what or who creates it.

Some information about the speaker in your video description would be most useful.

“Whenever a set of unusual circumstances is presented , it is in the nature of the human mind to analyze it until a rational pattern is encountered at some level . But it is quite conceivable that nature should present us with circumstances so deeply organized that our observational and logical errors would entirely mask the pattern to be identified . To the [ genuine ] scientist there is nothing new here .” ― Jacques Vallée

What about Lord Carnarvon's dog, which died at the same time as his owner --- from a great distance?

I think some of it has to do with memory. I believe all our memories, past present and future are all connected. You can occasionally remember things from the future, remembering something that you will remember eventually.

Anyone have anything on Facius Cordanos, or can direct me in the right direction? I’d appreciate it, thank you.

@INFILTR8US BTW Some of what I have said was insight gleaned from books like "Being No One" by Thomas Metzinger which consists of over 600 pages of "Functional Analytic Philosophy" in which Metzinger uses terms like "Phenomenal Model Intentionality Relations" to refer to "identities" comprising the Phenomenal Self-Model (PSM). I've "laymanized" this to "identities" and "self-model". Not good enough for you? Try reading Metzinger.

Read the book: The Radiant Being by Radhesham Lal available on Amazon

Awesome

Now can someone plz explain wht he said?

Does anyone know any good resurces about Vallee's physics of information? I would really really like to read more.

"There are more things in heaven & earth, Horatio, than are DREAMT OF in YOUR philosophy of "mechanistic empericism."

12:54: It seems it is "Hoova", not "Hoover" (subtitles).

Very interesting

DR. Jacques Vallee is right about the lack of studies into information associated with general relativity and quantum electro-dynamics. The String-let wave is that missing informational link, which operates at X2 the speed of light, and is a limiting controlling source of these elemental QED EMF and QCD particle interactions. The interactions of the String-let wave is what sets the speed of Time, that is the the ""FORCE of TIME"", not clock time, that is, the interaction speed of matter and energy. The String-let wave sets and limits the ""270 degrees of freedom"" of matter and energy. The String-let wave coupling speed (X2 C) sets the degrees of freedom for the physical inertial time flow rate and therefore sets the limits momentum to a top rate in the universe. The Speed of light (c) is a 4th dimensional Force of Time limit, and is not an absolute universal speed limit at all. The String-let wave is thee 4th dimensional coupling force that sets the rate of time flow coupling between particles and wave fields and sets the “”elemental coupling slip limit””.

I love how after clicking a new video I get a Halls advertisement. I’ve been buying Halls a lot lately for my throat. Meaningless coincidence? Or…

Exactly!

very wise...........

Did this man just confirm life is a giant simulation!!?? 😳

I wonder what these co-incidences mean. These things have been happening to me in a regular basis from the last year or so. Co-incidences that have like a million to one chances happen almost daily. What should I deduce from this?

If you don't have much of that illusionary construct called 'time' you could probably just watch the last five minutes. ;-) Did anyone watch 'The Dark'?

Unextraordinary dubbing...

To use two terms Dr Vallée did not, is his or Philippe Guillemant's theory involving "reverse causality" based only on "excess coincidence"? Is the theory testable, or otherwise usable?

Now we're getting somewhere.