I like how humans can genuinely be friends with octopuses despite the fact that their brain is shaped like a tube, our closest relative is the slug, they only live for a year, and they're completely anti-social creatures. They might as well be aliens, but we can still sense their emotions very clearly.
I also think if they existed and could fly in spaceships they would think a lot like we do. That, and there's only so many ways you can do biochemistry.
I bet they would have two eyes. Even tardigrades have two eyes.
I'd like to think the mentality of aliens would be similar to that of humans and some other mammals - I guess things like empathy and compassion would be advantageous characteristics - but I think there's more to biochemistry than what current science has shown.There was a lot of hype surrounding silicone based life forms and it turns out it's just not as good as carbon. It can't form the same variety of bonds needed to make so many things. I don't like to use the word "designed" but it seems like there's one great way to do life in our physics.
Two eyes would be an advantageous characteristic to develop, though. 3-dimensional vision!
There was a lot of hype surrounding silicone based life forms and it turns out it's just not as good as carbon. It can't form the same variety of bonds needed to make so many things. I don't like to use the word "designed" but it seems like there's one great way to do life in our physics.
It would be cool to think of different ways a brain could be made but we don't really know how brains work at this point in time. I bet it would be a bunch of cells sending electric impulses no matter what.
That's why it always annoys me when people say humanoid aliens don't make any sense. Yes they do, especially if they evolve in a world designed by man for man, like Star Wars.