blogospheroid comments on Simon Conway Morris: "Aliens are likely to look and behave like us". - Less Wrong
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I agree.
Have biochemists found any other molecular combinations that are of as good a fidelity as RNA and DNA to reliably transmit information?
But any DNA based combo could be equally likely. The superhappies of eliezer's fiction sounded like a DNA based species having genetic memory and they looked like blobs.