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Alien life may not be carbon-based, new study suggests::Self-sustaining chemical reactions that could support biology radically different from life as we know it might exist on many different planets, a new study finds.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The purpose of life is to seek out and dissipate energy gradients.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Very interesting take, I love it

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