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Intelligent life is as likely to have red (iron) blood, two hands with five fingers each as it is to have legs like a crab and it's blood be based on copper.
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Perhaps not. At a sufficiently high level of categorization evolution will have generated many "body plans" for the biota in each of the compatible environments. Those with DNA structures, iron blood transportation, two manipulators, and two locomotors will have competitive advantages (optimal "brain" loading) in the march to technical competence and result in not being significantly different from us.
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For those inclined to oppose human meddling with the structure of the universe or the composition and configuration of objects and groups of objects within the universe, consider:
Whether there is a limit to the magnitude of a modulation of chaos below which order remains invariant? Or, is order but a fiction invented by perspectives applied over finite, however large, time intervals?
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