Intriguing 'autocatalytic' reactions appear to be far more common than scientists had thought.

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.

  • @FooBarringtonEnglish
    15•1 year ago

    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.

    • @TheYear2525English
      6•1 year ago

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

      • @FooBarringtonEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        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.

    • @spittingimageEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      I’ve never heard that theory described so succinctly.

      • @FooBarringtonEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        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