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caio  ·  4514 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Drake Equation: Are we alone?

If not chemical, then what? Dark matter, perhaps? Aliens who only interact with our reality through gravity?





JakobVirgil  ·  4513 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was not thinking quite as exotic but I like where you are coming from.

Physics: Mechanical processes weather, erosion have emergent properties. gravity is not impossible N object systems where N>2 tend to be chaotic and thus have a possibility of emergence and ratcheting.

The universe is chock full of chaotic and emergent systems really it is harder to find one that is not.

If a system has the properties of variation and selection than it can produce life.