帶著殖民意圖的人類，所擘劃的火星計畫會走向怎麼樣的未來呢？

In the future, what will Mars projects planned by colonization-bent humans lead to?

由於過去的觀測技術尚未發達，本實驗室首席研究員羅威爾(Percival Lowell)在火星所發現的人造運河，甚至是提出火星上有高等文明的說法，其實僅是其個人對於未知的火星地貌所投射的異化想法，根據徳國哲學家瓦爾登費爾斯(Bernhard Waldenfels)提出的異化現象學(Phenomenology of the Alien)指出：「異化未知的想法 (alien) 起始於我們的內在，而非外在」，換句話說，過往所孵化的火星物種，其實很大程度上是源自各個研究員對於未知領域所投射的恐懼和期待。

這些被異化的物種，間接地影響了人類感知火星的方式，因此，本實驗室認為人類必需在未來踏上火星前，孵化出與火星更具連結性的火星物種；為了破除過往從火星地景所衍伸出的刻板妄想，本實驗室將再一次回到火星被異化的起點-火星的地理環境，並依據當前科學對於火星地貌環境和氣候狀態的觀測，重新探索我們看待火星的態度和意圖。

In the past, the available technology for observation was not advanced. The “canals” discovered by the lead researcher of this lab, Lowell, and the belief that Mars had an advanced culture were only his own alienated thoughts, just his personal projections of an unknown Mars landscape. According to the Phenomenology of the Alien by the German philosopher Bernhard Waldenfels, “The alien begins inside ourselves, not outside of ourselves.” In other words, the Mars species incubated in the past were mostly derived from the projections of fear and anticipation of researchers about unknown realms.

These alienated species indirectly affected people’s perceptions of Mars. Thus, this lab holds the position that, before people land on Mars, they must incubate Martian species that are more connected to their home planet. To overcome the stereotypes and delusions derived from the past Mars landscape, the lab again returned to the beginning, where Mars was alienated - the geological environment of the planet, and used observations of the landscape, environment, and climate based on current science to re-explore our attitude and intentions toward the red planet.

如果有一個火星生命出現在你面前，你會如何看待它的來意，又會如何跟它互動呢?

If a Martian lifeform appears in front of you, how will you perceive its intention of coming, and how will you interact with it?

1897年，當實驗室的首席研究員羅威爾(Percival Lowell)透過望遠鏡，首度在火星上觀測到人造運河後，本實驗室正式成立。在將近兩個世紀以來，實驗室的研究員孵化出各具特色的火星物種，並透過這些特色物種來推測火星的地理狀態，以及提供人類不同看待火星的觀點。

此後，火星物種的孵化經歷了數波特性上的演化，從一開始的宗教神性，到後來高等善良的特性，漸漸地轉變為殘忍無情，以致於到後來具殖民侵略性的出現，使得宇宙中首個邪惡外星物種也在本實驗室誕生，然而根據過往實驗室所孵化的物種樣本看來,具有侵略和剝削性的火星物種多半皆以滅絕收場，在「想像力能影響現實」的狀況下，人類似乎也漸漸成為自己孵化的火星物種。

In 1897, the lead researcher of a lab, Percival Lowell, perceived man-made canals through a telescope for the first time, and this lab was officially founded. For nearly 2 centuries since then, members of the lab have been incubating Martian life-forms with various characteristics, and they have used these characteristic species to infer the geological state of Mars and to provide humans with different perspectives on the red planet.

Since then, the Martians have undergone several waves of evolution. At first, they were religious. Later, they became advanced and benevolent. But gradually, they turned ruthless. In the end, they become invasive colonizers, and the first evil alien race in the universe was born in the lab. However, based on the samples previously incubated in the lab, the invasive and exploitative Martians have mostly gone extinct. Just as “imagination affects reality,” humans have gradually become the Martians they incubated.

火星物種孵化實驗室是一個長期致力於在地球孵化火星物種的特殊研究機構，創立目的是為了提供人類在登上火星之前，所需的精神層面研究和準備，探究人類該以何種心境，來面對與地球迥異的火星地景、物質和生命。

本實驗室開發出了一套向「內在火星」探索的物種孵化法，此方法所要孵化的並非物種的軀體樣態，而是其意識形體，期望藉此開展人類自身與火星的靈性連結。

為了孵化出多元的火星物種，我們將需要招募更多物種孵化員的加入！

The Martians Incubation Lab is a unique research institute that has long been dedicated to incubating species from Mars on Earth. The purpose of founding this lab was to conduct research and prepare humans spiritually before they landed on Mars by exploring what kind of mentality humans should develop to face a landscape, substances, and lives drastically unlike those on Earth.

This lab developed a species incubation method to explore one’s “Internal Mars.” What this method incubates is not the physical shape of a species but its consciousness. It is hoped that through them, we can build a spiritual connection between humans and Mars.

To incubate more diverse species from Mars, we need to recruit more species incubation personnel!

撇開被異化的刻板印象，再次從火星的地景出發，你會孵化出怎麼樣的火星物種呢？

Set aside from the stereotypes about Mars in the past, starting from its landscape again, what kind of Martian species will you incubate?

火星物種孵化實驗室最新主張，相較於向外在宇宙尋找火星生命的證據，向「內在宇宙」探索內在火星生命樣態也同等重要。

為了重塑人類與火星的關係性，本實驗室開發出了一套向內在宇宙尋找內星智慧的孵化方法(Search for Intraterrestrial Intelligence, SITI)，此方法將透過科學式的環境設定和情境式的冥想引導，物種孵化員將透過想像力，化身為棲息在火星的生命，感受在這顆星球上的環境狀態和氛圍情緒，在此同時，孵化員的腦波訊號將會被轉譯為即時的聲紋和型態，這個即時的聲音就好比是在與內在火星進行音樂性的對話，最終孵化出與孵化員具有連結性的「火星意識體」。

本次將孵化的火星意識體將分為三個主題：岩石地表、巨大火山、極深峽谷。

The latest position of the Mars Species Incubation Lab is that exploring the features of Martian life inwardly, in the internal universe, is equally important to externally discoveries of evidence of Martian life in the universe.

To reconstruct the relationship between humans and Mars, this lab developed the incubation method of Search for Intraterrestrial Intelligence (SITI). This method employs science-based environmental settings and situational guided meditation. The species incubation personnel imagine themselves as life-forms on Mars to sense the environmental states, atmosphere, and emotions of this planet. Meanwhile, the brainwaves of these people are translated into real-time voice prints and patterns. These real-time sounds are like musical dialogues conducted with one’s own internal Mars. Finally, Martian consciousnesses connected to the incubation personnel will be born.

Based on the landscape of Mars, this time, we divided the incubated Martian consciousnesses into three topics: The Rocky Surface, The Gigantic Volcano, and The Extremely Deep Valley.

關於何謂火星意識體,研究員透過生物學和哲學的角度,對於意識進行特性上的分析。從生物多樣性的角度來看,每種生物具有不同的感知器官,而這些感知器官將以不同的方式處理周圍環境的訊息,進而形塑每個個體獨有的思考模式,而模式各異的思考,也應促使意識如生物一樣,以多樣的型態存在。

另外,生命的形成是當一個環境滿足宜居條件時所具備的產物,故生命的狀態與其居住環境的狀態有著密不可分的關係,若生命的狀態會影響其承載的意識,那麼不同的環境也將形塑出不同的意識;當把環境的規模擴大到一個行星時,那這個行星也應當保有形塑其上意識的印記(imprint),像是行星的環境狀態、公轉與自轉的速度、月亮的存在與否等因素都將影響生命的演化,進而影響意識的狀態,故火星上的意識應當與地球的意識有所不同。

然而從哲學的角度來看,依據泛心論(Panpsychism)所提出的觀點-「意識是存在物質的最基本特徵」,即便是一個細小的粒子也都具有一種極其簡單的意識型態,因此山脈、石頭和灰塵可能也都具有意識,而我們人類的意識也僅是眾多微小意識的集合體。

若是以泛心論的觀點回看火星,或許其上的岩石、紅土和沙塵也都具有意識,再加上組成地球人類的粒子與組成火星物質的粒子具有部分相同的元素,因此或許我們的意識與火星上的意識具有某種層度上的共通性。

綜合生物學與哲學對於意識的觀點,研究員發現人類意識與火星意識之間異中存同的特點,故本實驗室對於火星意識體的基礎定義為「人類在觀想火星生命時所投射的內在意識」。

As for what a Martian consciousness entails, researchers analyzed the characteristics of consciousness from the perspectives of biology and philosophy. From the biodiversity perspective, each creature has different sense organs. Those sense organs use different methods to process information from the surrounding environment, shaping the unique thought patterns of individuals. These different thought patterns, in turn, should lead to the existence of diverse types of consciousness, as they do in the lower animals.

In addition, the development of life is the outcome of an environment having conditions suitable for lives. Thus, the state of life is closely related to its living environment. If the state of life affects the consciousness it carries, then different environments will bear different types of consciousnesses. When the scope of an environment is expanded to the scale of a planet, then the planet should also bear the imprints of the consciousnesses that shaped it, such as its environment, its revolution and rotation periods, and the presence or absence of satellites. These imprints affect the evolution of life and subsequently affect the states of consciousness. Thus, the consciousnesses of Mars should be different from those of Earth.

From the philosophical perspective, according to the perspective of panpsychism, consciousness is the most basic characteristic of extant matter. That is, even small particles have extremely simple forms of consciousness, and mountains, stones, and dust may all have consciousness. Human consciousness is only the aggregate of a multitude of minute forms of consciousness.

When the perspective of panpsychism is adopted to view Mars, the rocks, red dirt, and dust on its surface may all have consciousness. Given the idea that the compositions of the particles that form Earth and humans are very close to those forming substances on Mars, perhaps human consciousness and that of Mars share commonalities at a certain level. Summarizing the viewpoints of biology and philosophy on consciousness, researchers in this lab discovered that the consciousnesses of humans and Mars do indeed share commonalities. Thus, this lab has provided a basic definition of a Martian consciousness: “The inner consciousness projected by humans when they visualize life on Mars.”