Water may be taking a more central place in Life and organic matter. Possibly bad news for silicon trans-humanism and panpsychism. Definitely relevant to exobiology puzzles, and hopefully to “AI”.

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-scientists-molecules-materials.html

Scientist and engineer interested in Life.

Work on (GOF)AI, Agriculture, Biology, Energy, Robotics, Space---all topics climate-aware.

Great multi-question!

Trans-humanism separates body and mind. An appealing consequence is that mind could be transferred to another “body”, so potentially infinite life, etc, notably on computers (currently basically silicon). If life requires water, part of this plan collapses.

How is this relevant to each of these? I'm def a noob on these topics.

Great stuff. The more great filters behind us, the better