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I really don't know if this is the right forum to ask this but let me try..
Why everybody tends to think of life as something organic in composition ? For example, NASA sends the Mars rovers in search of water which is essential for an organic life form.
If the simple definition for a life form is..
1)Can Grow
2)Will Respond to stimuli
3)Can Reproduce
then we don't neccesarily have to equate life to a organism made of carbon and hydrogen. Why don't we think of a possibility of a life form that exist in some distant part of our galaxy that isn't made of organic material.
It could be even matterless being entirely a form of energy that shows the characteristics of life and doesn't have to be visible.
I know this idea is bizarre...but I tend to think why not?
Why everybody tends to think of life as something organic in composition ? For example, NASA sends the Mars rovers in search of water which is essential for an organic life form.
If the simple definition for a life form is..
1)Can Grow
2)Will Respond to stimuli
3)Can Reproduce
then we don't neccesarily have to equate life to a organism made of carbon and hydrogen. Why don't we think of a possibility of a life form that exist in some distant part of our galaxy that isn't made of organic material.
It could be even matterless being entirely a form of energy that shows the characteristics of life and doesn't have to be visible.
I know this idea is bizarre...but I tend to think why not?