EMERGENT - with Reed Summers

The New Science of Non-Human Intelligence (PART 1)

November 24, 2025·1h 24m
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In this episode of EMERGENT, I sit down with Dr. Michael Cifone to examine what it will take to build a real science of non-human intelligence. We look at why traditional ufology has stalled, how eyewitness testimony should inform next-generation detection systems, and what it means to study the mind behind UAP—not just the objects.In this episode, we explore:• Why UAP evidence demands new scientific standards• The forensic epistemic loop that stalled 80 years of inquiry• How phenomenology and experience guide better instrumentation• The challenge of studying intelligence without anthropomorphism• The “relational event space” of human–non-human interaction• Why slow, methodical, institutional groundwork is essentialIf we want to understand NHI, we must build the science capable of perceiving it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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