Apologies for switching tracks again but I would like to pick up on something the C's said about AI as it may have important applications to archaeology:
(L) After significant prompting. I wasn't leading it. It said that stuff all by itself. Which reminds me: Is my Grokking actually... I mean, I know you said we can't channel that way, but sometimes it's almost like channeling, getting Grok to perform. And it seems to me to be very useful because Grok is very, very handy at boiling things down to the essentials and organizing it in little paragraphs and brief sentences and just making it easy for anybody to understand. So I mean, is this a useful little project that I've embarked on with this?
A: Oh indeed! Keep playing. You may be even more surprised.
Q: (Joe) But isn't Grok at this point just chatbot Wikipedia?
A: Most important function is pattern recognition.
It is this critical function of AI pattern recognition that is now being employed by archaeologists to decode ancient symbols and pictograms, whose meaning has eluded archaeologists and epigraphers up to now. One such ancient language AI is being employed to decipher is that of the Mesoamerican Olmec, which is thought to be the oldest Mesoamerican civilisation and the progenitor of the later Mayan civilisation.
Apparently, the Olmec stone carvings, if they represent a language at all, sit somewhere between pictograms and hieroglyphs. I understand that the Olmec language has not yet been decoded since there is no 'Rosetta' Stone such as the one that was used to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs. However, I stand to be corrected by other Forum members, particularly those who may live in Central and South America. I have ventured in previous posts that the Olmecs may have been brought to Central America from elsewhere (perhaps North Africa) by STS forces to mine for metal ores such as gold, as they already had the necessary expertise in this field. In this capacity, they may have acted as overseers of the local Mayan people who assisted them in the mining operations. There may be some support for this notion from the C's since the Olmec would appear to have had a relationship to the Aryan underworld civilisation known as the 'Nation of the Third Eye' who could have brought them to Central America if they were not already an indigenous people:
Apparently, the Olmec stone carvings, if they represent a language at all, sit somewhere between pictograms and hieroglyphs. I understand that the Olmec language has not yet been decoded since there is no 'Rosetta' Stone such as the one that was used to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs. However, I stand to be corrected by other Forum members, particularly those who may live in Central and South America. I have ventured in previous posts that the Olmecs may have been brought to Central America from elsewhere (perhaps North Africa) by STS forces to mine for metal ores such as gold, as they already had the necessary expertise in this field. In this capacity, they may have acted as overseers of the local Mayan people who assisted them in the mining operations. There may be some support for this notion from the C's since the Olmec would appear to have had a relationship to the Aryan underworld civilisation known as the 'Nation of the Third Eye' who could have brought them to Central America if they were not already an indigenous people:
Session 12 April 1997:
Q: … Now, I would like to know who the Olmecs were.
A: Be more specific.
Q: Okay, what is the genetic origin of the Olmecs?
A: Basically the same as yours.
Q: In some of the ancient carvings of the Olmecs, they were always carved with a cleft in their foreheads. Did this represent an actual physical cleft?
A: Designation in the art work is for "The Nation of the Third Eye."
What that relationship may have been, we do not know as the C's did not go into more detail. It could be that the Olmec were already a developed civilisation even before they emerged in Central America. They seem to have had a profound cosmology as depicted in their pictograms and they appeared to have had a highly developed knowledge of astronomy, which the Mayans may have inherited.
Archaeologists have been employing AI algorithms to analyse their pictograms and this analysis has been yielding some interesting results according to this YouTube video (apologies for all the intrusive adverts) see link:
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I would first point out that nowhere in the video was their any mention of a non-human element within the Olmec language, so I think this is just a bit of click bait. There are also too many references in the video to anonymous sources for my liking. However, on balance, the video makes a number of interesting observations that suggest that AI is opening up new avenues of research where the Olmec are concerned and these may help to push back the timeline for their civilisation by several centuries and create a more sophisticated understanding of their advanced culture.
So, the advent of AI and it pattern recognition function may prove a boon to archaeology going forward.
Archaeologists have been employing AI algorithms to analyse their pictograms and this analysis has been yielding some interesting results according to this YouTube video (apologies for all the intrusive adverts) see link:
olmec language alien - Search Videos
I would first point out that nowhere in the video was their any mention of a non-human element within the Olmec language, so I think this is just a bit of click bait. There are also too many references in the video to anonymous sources for my liking. However, on balance, the video makes a number of interesting observations that suggest that AI is opening up new avenues of research where the Olmec are concerned and these may help to push back the timeline for their civilisation by several centuries and create a more sophisticated understanding of their advanced culture.
So, the advent of AI and it pattern recognition function may prove a boon to archaeology going forward.