This is called science nowadays. We had a whole bunch of degenerates who publish papers which prove that so-called proto-Russians wrote Vedas because symbols

This is called science nowadays. We had a whole bunch of degenerates who publish papers which prove that so-called proto-Russians wrote Vedas because symbols similar to swastikas has been found on some excavations somewhere in taiga. Idiots, idiots everywhere. The formalized process of extraction of knowledge of underlying fundamental principles from surrounding Brahman is what we call scientific inquiry. The goal, emphasised by Buddha, is to see things as they are, without piling up meaningless abstraction and producing himeras and dogmas. According to the principle of similar environmental conditioning, similar social formations would emerge due to similar selection pressures. The notion of authority goes back to families with dominant individuals and to the collective child care as an effective evolutionary strategy. "Scientists" who have understood as little as this would never have published such nonsense like a single origin of phenomena which is a natural adaptation and is shared among many animals. Similarly, segregated societies could arrive at similar symbols and notions independently, by observing and reflecting on the similar (the same) environment, without any connection whatsoever.