Goldilocks

Originally recorded 2019-09-12 1:13 PM

Ever since I was a child, teenager maybe, I was aware of this thought that ‘life’ was simply a product of the current physical, chemical, biological state of our universe/environment. The limited view of scientists who keep searching for life or postulate the probability of life based on the small limited set of factors that caused ‘our’ version of life (hydro-carbon based) has always frustrated me – for the longest time now.

And even to this date I hear people, scientists even, talk about the puddle theory of existence and stop there. Why can’t they take it to the next level and say, “However, just as our set of circumstances created this hydrocarbon form of life (if ‘life’ means the ability of the subject to process random data/stimulus to create structured information/reaction with possibility to recreate itself and even develop consciousness and sentience) there could be other sets of circumstances that could support any number of forms of life.

Scientists should stop searching for ‘goldilocks’ situations and consider the possibility of any set of circumstance producing or ‘naturally selecting’ recreating (and then ‘thinking’ or ‘aware that we are aware’) entities anywhere in the universe. Our ‘goldilocks’ position within the solar system, milky way, universe is unique to us. It is arrogant and self-focused for us humans (scientists mainly) to not even consider this possibility and look for life only in our kind of ‘goldilock’ bands across different systems or galaxies.

Then imagine how possibilities open up!