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More Than Persuading Humans

Disclosure as a problem that might not be aimed only at us: Brown's ordinary job description for an alien conversation, the difference between interest and liking, and Pasulka's question about who is being prepared.

What depth means here

Nothing about credibility. Stops sit on one line in reading order, exactly as on the flat map. A connection between neighbouring stops runs along that line. A connection that skips stops arcs away from it, and each arc takes its own lane so that arcs never cross or overlap. The direction and distance of an arc, the size of a stop, the thickness of a line and any movement of the camera carry no meaning: they do not signal credibility, certainty, corroboration or importance. The kind of connection is shown only by its colour and dash pattern, named in the legend and beside every connection in the list below. Everything in this view is also in the flat map and in the published reader.

The trail at a glance

Flat mapThe published reader's map, unchanged.
Documented, stop 1 to stop 2: Brown stays on the same problem: if the conversation is not only for us, it can still arrive wearing an ordinary job description.Documented, stop 2 to stop 3: Same interview: interest, contact, and motive stay separate. Liking is not included in the job.Thematic, stop 3 to stop 4: Here the trail crosses to Pasulka. Her preparation question and Brown's motive split both ask who the audience of the event actually is. Separate sources; the resemblance is the point.Hypothesis, stop 1 to stop 4: My join. If disclosure is not only persuasion of humans, 'who is being prepared' is the other half of that sentence. Neither source writes it that way.1More than humansMatthew Brown2Job descriptionMatthew Brown3LikingMatthew Brown4PreparedLue Elizondo &Diana PasulkaDocumented, stop 1 to stop 2: Brown stays on the same problem: if the conversation is not only for us, it can still arrive wearing an ordinary job description.Documented, stop 2 to stop 3: Same interview: interest, contact, and motive stay separate. Liking is not included in the job.Thematic, stop 3 to stop 4: Here the trail crosses to Pasulka. Her preparation question and Brown's motive split both ask who the audience of the event actually is. Separate sources; the resemblance is the point.Hypothesis, stop 1 to stop 4: My join. If disclosure is not only persuasion of humans, 'who is being prepared' is the other half of that sentence. Neither source writes it that way.1More than humansMatthew Brown2Job descriptionMatthew Brown3LikingMatthew Brown4PreparedLue Elizondo & Diana Pasulka

Open the published reader

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Documented, stop 1 to stop 2: Brown stays on the same problem: if the conversation is not only for us, it can still arrive wearing an ordinary job description.Documented, stop 2 to stop 3: Same interview: interest, contact, and motive stay separate. Liking is not included in the job.Thematic, stop 3 to stop 4: Here the trail crosses to Pasulka. Her preparation question and Brown's motive split both ask who the audience of the event actually is. Separate sources; the resemblance is the point.Hypothesis, stop 1 to stop 4: My join. If disclosure is not only persuasion of humans, 'who is being prepared' is the other half of that sentence. Neither source writes it that way.1More than humans2Job description3Liking4Prepared

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What the connection labels mean

Documented
The connection is in the source itself: the same passage, the speaker carrying one idea into the next stretch of the conversation, or the speaker making the link himself elsewhere in the same conversation. The record supports the link; it doesn't prove the claim.
The same figure, account or claim turns up in more than one source. That's the story travelling, not two independent witnesses.
Thematic
My grouping. Different sources asking a similar question, placed side by side because thinking about them together is useful.
Hypothesis
My proposal. A join that neither source makes; I'm making it, and I say so where it happens.

The labels do one job: they tell you whether a connection is in the source record, is the same account turning up twice, is my grouping, or is my guess. None of them turns two takes into proof of each other.

The stops

  1. Stop 1 of 4More than humans

    Matthew BrownAgreements

    Disclosure might involve more than persuading humans

    Read the takeOpen the published reader at stop 1

  2. Stop 2 of 4Job description

    Matthew BrownCommunication

    An alien conversation with an ordinary job description

    DocumentedWhy this comes next

    Brown stays on the same problem: if the conversation is not only for us, it can still arrive wearing an ordinary job description.

    Read the takeOpen the published reader at stop 2

  3. Stop 3 of 4Liking

    Matthew BrownNonhuman motives

    Being interested in us would not automatically mean liking us

    DocumentedWhy this comes next

    Same interview: interest, contact, and motive stay separate. Liking is not included in the job.

    Read the takeOpen the published reader at stop 3

  4. Stop 4 of 4Prepared

    Lue Elizondo & Diana PasulkaWhy her, and what are we being prepared for?

    Who is getting us ready for this?

    ThematicWhy this comes next

    Here the trail crosses to Pasulka. Her preparation question and Brown's motive split both ask who the audience of the event actually is. Separate sources; the resemblance is the point.

    Read the takeOpen the published reader at stop 4

Every connection on this trail

  1. DocumentedStop 1to Stop 2

    Brown stays on the same problem: if the conversation is not only for us, it can still arrive wearing an ordinary job description.

  2. DocumentedStop 2to Stop 3

    Same interview: interest, contact, and motive stay separate. Liking is not included in the job.

  3. ThematicStop 3to Stop 4

    Here the trail crosses to Pasulka. Her preparation question and Brown's motive split both ask who the audience of the event actually is. Separate sources; the resemblance is the point.

  4. HypothesisStop 1to Stop 4

    My join. If disclosure is not only persuasion of humans, 'who is being prepared' is the other half of that sentence. Neither source writes it that way.