Inorganic life forms...

for the past few days, i've been reading a lot about the origins of life, evolution and creationism. i came across this piece of info. take a look...

http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/1367-2630/9/8/263/njp7_8_263.html


excerpt from the research paper:"...Our analysis shows that if helical dust structures are formed in space, they can have bifurcations as memory marks and duplicate each other, and they would reveal a faster evolution rate by competing for `food' (surrounding plasma fluxes). These structures can have all necessary features to form `inorganic life'. This should be taken into account for formulation of a new SETI-like program based not only on astrophysical observations but also on planned new laboratory experiments, including those on the ISS. In the case of the success of such a program one should be faced with the possibility of resolving the low rate of evolution of organic life by investigating the possibility that the inorganic life `invents' the organic life..."

what this implies is a significant turn of events for mankind's understanding and quest for life's origin and alternative forms of life.

the new discovery is fantastical.

human understanding or atleast the lines on which we're looking out for life is only life like ourselves. one that has organic matters, amino acids as components, which require water for its existence

mankind has however failed to probe the possibility that life may exist in an altogether different form.

atom>molecules>chemicals>cell>organs>organisms

mankind has always considered only the last three as falling under the realms of life.

we mite as well extend the hierarchy as:
atom>molecules>chemicals>cell> organs> organisms> ecosystem> earth> solarsystem> galaxies> futher ahead...

for mankind, earth, solarsystem and galaxies are so huge that we have no/little understanding abt them.

but is it so far-fetched that earth mite be just a building block (just like cell is for us) for another 'living' organism which is so huge that we just are not able to imagine/comprehend it?

there is a possibility that solar system is AWARE too. that earth is AWARE too. afterall working of earth's systems is not very unlike human body.

man has investigated life at a MICRO levels and has found algae, microbes, bacteria, and viruses.

but we've failed to investigate the possibility of life at a MACRO level.

isn't it just a possibility that we, humans too form a building block of some other 'living' 'organism', which has sense and is 'aware'?

i find this a very interesting question. and its hardly irrelevant. i wudnt be surprised if we discover that humans/earth/solar system is just a building block for yet another 'living' 'organism'!!!