Alkanes, from the possible breakdown of fatty-acids, in distant past..
To me, the question then becomes .. is there any nonbiological-method for Mars to have produced those molecules?
IF so, THEN .. probably that's how they got there..
but without knowing the answer to that question..
it isn't decided, is it?
https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Kinds-Smart-Identifying-Intelligences/dp/0452281377/
identified many years ago that our definition of "intelligence" is far-too-narrow, & anybody who's read it, can understand why I say the evidence is thiat the orginal definition of "intelligence" was intended to lock-out all kinds of intelligence that male academics were not good at..
( 1 example, right from that book, is .. it usually is possible to find 1 girl in a grade-school-class who can identify who's friends with whom, who's enemies with whom, and why, having all that stuff mapped-out in her head..
I'm autistic.
I can't even manage to be anybody's present-friend, more than a few minutes per year?
Been a few years since I had friends..
What any such girl is demonstrating absolutely is an intelligence!
Denigrated by male "authorities", of course, as is to be expected..
Gender-prejudice taints all our world, doesn't it?
Lipman's "That's what SHE said!" backs this..
https://www.amazon.com/Thats-What-She-Said-Together-ebook/dp/B0716GZT1P/ )
( obviously, these aren't "affiliate" links )
Another item, though, music isn't an intelligence, it is a whole set of intelligences:
& I rather suspect that ALL intelligences are fractal, like that..
Nick Lane's Royal Institution Talk, on yt, also indicates that the "atom" of awareness may be mitochondria ( since jamming them jams our awareness, as the anaesthetic xenon, iirc, demonstrates )
https://nick-lane.net/media/how-the-krebs-cycle-powers-life-and-death/
Gottman published, many years ago, that contempt is the primary not-survivable factor in a relationship.
So, this is "rediscovering the wheel", then..
Researchers Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright, discovered that there are 5 social-process levels ( they misidentify as "stages", but caterpillar-moth is stages, & reversible modes are not irreversible, as stages are ),, & that conspiricism is produced in level2.
They published a popular book, in order to get the core of their research into the understanding of people in organizations, where it could do the most good.
Level5 - LIVING IS SELF-INHERENTLY AWESOME!!
Level4 - WE are awesome, THEY are what we are competing against.
Level3 - Narcissism-culture. Doctors are the exemplars of it. It took me until my mid-50's to realize that raised-by-medical-professionals syndrome IS raised-by-narcissists syndrome, even though I'd read a book identifying the entire pattern of damage in the children of such, back in the 1980's ( sometimes I'm not quick ). Dad was a medical-researcher & a doctor. That insight is spot on. You want 2 independent proofs? 1. dress professionally well, a quality suit, & walk into any 4 hospitals ( averaging the results ), & count the percentage of lower-level people, including cleaning-staff, who are upright & meeting your gaze as equally-valid humans. None is likely to be the percentage: their validity has been disallowed/negated by medical-culture. 2. record video in clinics/hospitals, in the hallways, of people interacting, leaving-out any audio: video-only, & record it so it plays-back in slow-motion. When you watch it in slow-motion, because your unconscious won't be automatically-hiding the class-establishing bodylanguage, due to the wrong-speed, you should be able to see the narcissism body-language screaming from doctors. The 1st time I became conscious of it, it was stunning, and my having never seen it, in decades, .. shaming.
Level2 - Subject-to-narcissism's-dominion culture. Conspiricism breeds in this level.
Level1 - gangs/inmates/nihilism culture. Mass shootings. Manufactured into inmates, manufactured into gang-members, etc. This has the motivation & the leverage to butcher the whole of the rest. Notice that there were over 600 mass-shootings in the US in 2023, and that homelessness is skyrocketing, simultaneously.. That isn't "mere coincidence". Given the political-dominion "solutions" being enacted there, the percentage of the population in Level1 is going to be significantly increasing, with all the consequences of that.
Those who are helplessly subjugated beneath narcissism's dominion, are likely to become conspiricist, exactly as Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright identified.
Actually, it's natural.
IF prohibited from being validly-human, THEN become some other kind of validity, ( "displacement" is it called, in psychology? ), and being "the conspiricist who gets information 1st" is a kind of validity that can exist in the level beneath narcissism's dominion.
Since validity's a basic & fundamental unconscious-mind need, .. this is going to happen.
Consistently.
So, basically, written Irish isn't so much a language, as, rather, a form of encryption somehow devised by the Irish to prohibit communication?
Phil Bolger was right: whomever devised such spellings, to "represent" Irish speech, deserves some quality-time in hell.
Yeeks.
Obviously, it depends on how one defines science:
IF science is defined partly by declaring that awareness isn't real, then it has already divorced reality.
Awareness produces effects, like cities, and couldn't do-so if it weren't real.
Awareness is immaterial, so physicalism prohibits/contempts it being real, but physicalism must also prohibit/contempt entanglement being real, because it isn't physical, either.
Etc.
IF one draws the lines so that ALL the phenomena in Universe that cause results get included, THEN yes, science can discover absolute truth about some aspects of Universe.
However, if one draws the lines so that ideology/prejudice decides what is real, then no, nothing can make that work right.
The most important understanding is in Hofstadter's "Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", where he hammers it into one, how self-consistent-formal-systems are mind-blind to ALL outside them.
That is a feature of the things, as Godel's Theorem of Incompleteness proved.
All who don't understand that ( & much/most of Western Philosophy rejects it, as "Slight of Mind" is one, of many many many, examples demonstrating ) simply aren't competent in the Philosophy they're believing they're doing.
( seriously: read GEB, then try reading Slight of Mind, which contradicts/ignores/denies GEB, & ask yourself which is truer: the math, or the ideology which rejects the math )
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Child-onset schizophrenics lose 10% of their brains ( this has been known since the 1920's, so doctors rejecting that it is brain-injury, & remaining adamant that it is "illness of mind" of the child, has been gaslighting the subjects/patients for an entire century, and I'd found a PubMed paper which admitted that it had been known since the 1920's, so it isn't just Google Scholar that said such is the case ).
A researcher named Thompson, iirc, did mapping of the brain-loss process, showing where the cortex loses 20%, where it loses 15%, etc, down to 5%, vs where no tissue-loss appeared.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.201243998
He said it took 5y for the wave of brain-loss to go through, & it looked like a slow-motion "forest fire".
It may simply be that people born-blind have more spare-brain to repurpose, so they don't get the mental-illness symptom from the brain-loss wave.
Whereas kids with all their brain being at-its-limit, and then being brain-decimated, they are psychically-butchered.
Notice that recently somebody published that living with cats doubles the child-onset schizophrenia-rate, so toxoplasmosis is implicated in the brain-injury/brain-loss, too.
Interesting angle..
Thank you for posting this, eh?
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"access through your institutions"..
So, I'm blocked from reading it.
EDIT: Found an alternative, I think:
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/682762
No matter.
IF there isn't much need for mothering in this nest, THEN go provide mothering in other nests, even-though wasps are .. aggressively competitive critters according to them.
This isn't the version I'd read before, but it's the same research:
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2021/february/tropical-wasps.html
That is 1 evidence-based-science identifying altruism's root.
Mothering the root of it, again.
Of course, religious-men twisted the text to mean that women were "guilty" of "sin" and used that to justify mysogyny for many many millenia, but what should one expect of male-supremacism, when its too-fragile ego feels threatened?
History, Western, Eastern, doesn't suggest that we should expect honest integrity of it, obviously.
( the literally millions of women who were forced to die in India due to that male-supremacism, iirc 1 census pegged it at 30,000,000-ish missing women, and that number wouldn't have gone down recently..
the selective-abortion-of-female-foetuses/babies, in order to protect male-supremacism, including the Chinese woman who died while aborting her 4th or 6th or something daughter, because her husband wanted a son to be their only or 1stborn child..
it isn't just China that selectively exterminates girl-lives, the West shows the same thing, & as a Jewess pointed-out, nobody in Jewish culture celebrates the birth of a girl: only boys.
The Catholic inquisition's holocausting of women..
Hatred of female-lives & female-validity seems to be a deep current throughout humankind's diverse cultures, for millenia. )
3 different views into ancient psychology, and all-3 identify mothering as being the root of altruism..
That seems a trend..
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ALL power-minorities, women, Indigenous, battered people, homeless people, autistics, the same is true.
Power-majority is self-centered, aka narcissistic.
That is the default.
"majority RULE" means minority over-ruled/bullied, inherently.
Look at how a story in the Abrahamic religions scripture, on how women ate "the fruit of the knowledge of Good & Evil" which means they ate Morality .. got turned, by the power-majority into hating-on women for their "sin".
Women ( mothering ) ate of morality & shared it with men.
Period.
Researchers studying wasps in the Americas discovered that altruism is generalized-mothering, Buddhism perceived the same underlying-principle 25 consecutive centuries ago, the correct reading of that story in Genesis stated so, but the male-supremacism deformed the meaning until bullying women became religious-law for .. millenia..
Many years ago, in the 1990's, there were the Internet FAQs.
The Feminism FAQ of that time identified that there was a category-difference between early White feminists & early Black feminists:
White feminists wanted to be included in the White privilege that males had. They wanted their half of White entitlement.
Black feminists, being bullied both for being women & for being Black, wanted something completely different: they wanted the abuse to be forced to unexist.
That is evidence ( my life corroborates it ) that our unconscious, when bullied in 1 dimension, wants to be included in the power-majority group, but when bullied in 2+ dimensions ( each individual may have a different threshold ), then the underlying problem with bullying-itself is understood by one's unconscious, and it becomes removing bullying's rule that one's unconscious understands to be the problem.
It isn't leaving women, Indiginous people, homeless people, etc, fucked-over, while fixing it for 1 subgroup, that is going to make humankind viable, it is dismantling abuse-archy for all that can.
IF we earn it.
in time.
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I'd say combining Pimsleur with Tandem & Anki would be an extremely effective method.
Only Tandem's got Sanskrit, though..
( & I'm not a people-person, being autistic )
So, I'll try again, someday..
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I'd read, years ago, in the science news-headlines sites, that someone had cracked Colony Collapse Disorder:
They'd said that in ALL the hives which didn't have CCD, there was never the coincidence of both a specific virus and a specific fungus, infecting them.
They'd said that in all the hives which did have CCD, both that specific virus & that specific fungus were in-play.
Apparently, to them, the infection of both of those specific-pathogens, meant that their immune-systems were defeated, & everything else got them, then.
Since I can't find that article, here's a different article which identifies some specific pathogen, which I hope includes both the specific-virus & specific-fungus that the other researchers had found to be the culprit:
https://beeprofessor.com/colony-collapse-disorder/