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Alien life may not be carbon-based, new study suggests
(www.space.com)
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What a fun way to think of life (and thus myself).
Hydrogen is an element that, when left for long enough in sufficient quantities, begins to wonder where it came from.
You can go one step further: life is just an area of low entropy keeping itself like that by increasing the entropy of its environment.
We poop out randomness to keep ourselves not random.
The purpose of life is to seek out and dissipate energy gradients.
Due to this fact, I strongly believe that the ultimate purpose of intelligent life must be to find a way to reverse entropy, before there are no more energy gradients to dissipate.
Very interesting take, I love it
I've never heard that theory described so succinctly.
The first or the second? Cause I've been working on the first for years, but the second came to me in 5 seconds, so I hope it's the first :D
The second. Sorry.
Haha, all good!
I mean that is literally what we're made of. You know those PCR COVID tests? The underlying process just makes DNA/RNA do what they would otherwise do inside the body, outside the body. Put some you-goo through that same process and it just starts replicating all by itself. Everything that makes you unique that's wasn't also a product of your environment is digitally encoded in that double helix, and all it wants or knows how to do is ffuuuuuuuuccckkkkkk
You’re just a rabbit hole that math fell down.