taw comments on Simon Conway Morris: "Aliens are likely to look and behave like us". - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taw 25 January 2010 03:15:20PM 7 points [-]

Because we have a sample size of life of 1, and sample size of intelligent life of 1, we have very little way of figuring out what would the second sample look like.

One thing I'd be willing to bet on is that it will be based on CHONPS chemistry like us.

Comment author: ciphergoth 26 January 2010 05:24:36PM 3 points [-]

Or at least, if it is constructed rather than evolved, that its evolved ancestors are CHONPS