245
Alien life may not be carbon-based, new study suggests
(www.space.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2023
245 points (91.8% liked)
Technology
58698 readers
4040 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
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!