Thanks Horse,
I wasn't being contentious - the universe is big (in time and space)
so no reason to exclude any forms of life beyond our myopic ken, in a
truly metaphysical view - Not just organic in the well known
carbon-based / DNA-based sense , but organic as in like a (living)
organism.
Yes John,
Necessarily so give the evolved nature of Western dominated
socio-cultural-intellectual society.
So not necessarily so for all times and case-studies beyond human
individuals - one reason why we need human patterns bigger than
humans.
I think it was Dave Thomas (no another old
Dan said:
I don't know, Dave. I think there are observations being made that non-DNA
based lifeforms are possible: Synthetic biologists have discovered that six
other molecules can could store genetic information and pass it on. A host of
alternative nucleic acids have been made in labs over
