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Originally Posted by Bogie
And it wouldn't be much of a surprise to find that life abounds out there too.
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Maybe not "much of a surprise" to about 5% of the population.... It would certainly be a major, MAJOR finding.
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Originally Posted by Bogie
Life must be generative and evolvative (coined words). It would make sense that life can be naturally generated when the right conditions exist...
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I think the word you want is
emergent. See
At Home in the Universe [1995] by Stuart Kauffman.
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Originally Posted by Bogie
...once life gets a foothold... it would naturally evolve toward intelligence.
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From what I've read, there is no particular "direction" to evolution - except toward surviving and reproducing. Intelligence may help to survive but also
may tend to cut down on reproduction.