Philosopher Dr. Bernardo Kastrup on iai.tv:
Materialism will be mocked.
Despite decades of space exploration, it has never been tested whether Earth life, including microbes, plants, and animals, can remain alive at distances beyond the Moon. That simple fact raises a question:
why has that remained unexplored?
The answer seems to be found in the stubborn cultural belief in materialism, combined with the assumption that life is independent of the solar system because humans have been culturally ingrained through films such as Star Trek to believe that they will travel through the cosmos as independent biochemical bundles of matter.
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Perplexity.AI concluded that "
there is currently no evidence to suggest that life can remain alive independent of a fundamental energy source in the solar system. Currently, there are no known factors in the solar system or the universe aside from neutrinos that could potentially provide the fundamental energy required for life to be possible." This fact highlights the importance of energy to make life possible and the specificity of the energy required for life's specific directional energetic organizing behavior.
Despite this fact, humans are confidently being sent to Mars without ever having tested whether earth life, including microbes, plants, and animals, can remain alive at a further distance than the Moon. This
fundamental negligence to test whether earth life can remain alive deeper in space before investing trillions of USD to prepare for sending humans to Mars might provide a case for groundbreaking evidence that materialism has been a fundamental mistake of humanity.
Furthermore, there is a risk that Earth life forms may not survive on Mars through neutrino energy due to the difference in distance between Mars and the Sun compared to the distance between Earth and the Sun. Neutrinos are very weakly interacting particles, and their interactions with matter are largely dependent on distance. As the distance between the source of neutrinos (in this case, the Sun) and the recipient (Earth or Mars) changes, the number of neutrinos that interact with matter changes as well.
If Earth life is indeed bound to a region around the
Sun, that could have profound implications for the understanding of life, consciousness, and the ambitions to explore the cosmos.
The fact that it was never tested whether Earth life can remain alive in space at a further distance than the Moon before investing trillions of USD to prepare for sending humans to Mars might provide a case for groundbreaking evidence that materialism has been a fundamental mistake of humanity.