Smart Slime

in STEMGeeks3 years ago

In my Actifit report yesterday @jfang003 replied asking if aliens would have bones. I was reviewing an Isaac Arthur video and I can't speak for him but my response would be that I would expect most intelligent alien species to have at minimum a hard skull encasing the brain. Maybe not necessarily "bone" but some dense material to help protect the brain.

An alternative @jfang003 proposed is an alien slime mold. I can imagine some kind of alien amoeba-like single-cell that fuses to others of its kind. Individually each cell has no intelligence but by grouping and networking together there could be emergence of a type of intelligence. Its "brain" would be distributed so it wouldn't have as much of a need for a hard protective brain enclosure. That type of life probably couldn't develop tools and become space-faring though.

Is there intelligent slime somewhere in the Universe?

I don't know.

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haha, I like the idea of intelligent slime!
Given what other things we sometimes call 'intelligent', we may not even need to go out to the universe to find some :)

!BEER

 3 years ago Reveal Comment

What if these aliens are I form of stones just like the fantastic 4, or the mountains that fought in the hubbits.

Aliens comes in different structures, personalities, that's why they are aliens


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While that's true "alien" doesn't necessarily imply "inconceivable". There are certain physical constants that are assumed to be the same no matter where in the Universe one is. This limits the possibilities from infinite to finite. There are also certain ways atoms of a given element can or can't bond to other atoms to form molecules. There are also ranges of pressure, temperature and radiation at which certain chemistry works and can be in one state of matter or another. Much of this was pointed out in the video.