eburacum
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Actually life doesn't go against entropy any more than mechanical systems. In order to supoport a lifeform in space, you need an extensive closed ecological life support system, which creates a lot of disorder in itself.
Eventually mechanical systems could be made self-repairing and self replicating, so the difference between biological lifesytems and mechanical life systems may eventually be minimal.
I think that the exploration of the universe should follow as many different and diverse routes as possible:
genetically engineered space adapted organisms, cybernetically augmented biology, pure robotic exploration,
and data only ships containing uploaded human mentalities (and perhaps artificial intelligences not copied from human minds).
These last will probably be the longest lived explorers, able to travel thousands of light years in data banks; if we ever meet alien explorers, chances are they will be of this kind.
Eventually mechanical systems could be made self-repairing and self replicating, so the difference between biological lifesytems and mechanical life systems may eventually be minimal.
I think that the exploration of the universe should follow as many different and diverse routes as possible:
genetically engineered space adapted organisms, cybernetically augmented biology, pure robotic exploration,
and data only ships containing uploaded human mentalities (and perhaps artificial intelligences not copied from human minds).
These last will probably be the longest lived explorers, able to travel thousands of light years in data banks; if we ever meet alien explorers, chances are they will be of this kind.