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How did life begin—and are we alone?
FROM THE QUESTION LIBRARY
Life in the UniverseAnswer
Planets turn out to be everywhere, but we still know of only one living world, so here is what the numbers say, where the arguments split, and how to judge the next headline.
OriginsEssay · personal view
To another intelligence, we might not be “humans” at all, but one highly social species of living organism—technologically remarkable, biologically related to the rest of life, and still learning what consciousness means.
The Architect AI companion · All Access
