Evolving artificial intelligent life’ might sound like a grandiose claim from an individual — perhaps even science fiction. I would argue your skepticism speaks more to how we’re conditioned to think about life rather than the merits of the claim itself.

Prevailing consensus would have you believe that life in the Universe is vanishingly rare, or somehow exceedingly difficult to create. A simple thought experiment, used to better understand Fermi’s paradox, can shed light on the astronomical odds stacked against the ‘rare life’ hypothesis.

To wit, life forming chemistries are most certainly not uniquely Carbon and water based in a narrow pressure band in a narrow temperature range between 0 and 100 degrees Celsius. Instead, they may appear anywhere up and down the temperature, radiation and pressure spectra, across a near infinite range of substances (i.e. Methane is liquid at low temperatures, Iron is liquid at high temperatures).

Life forming chemistries are most certainly not uniquely Carbon and water based in a narrow pressure band in a narrow temperature range between 0 and 100 degrees Celsius.

The only commonality these chemistries would need is the ability to store and transmit data, making radiation (light) a potential substrate for life, and possibly even Gravity.

Perhaps the only fundamental prerequisite for life is the ability to store and transmit data.

Computers have everything we need. But I digress…

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