Activity for Basile Starynkevitchâ€
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Life-speed of non-water alien life (much slower or much faster than on Earth)? Would non-water based alien life have different life speed than us? (I have studied some chemistry in CPGE in 1978-80, but I was very bad at it) IIRC, chemical reactions are (exponentially) faster with temperature, i.e. because of Arrhenius equation. So hypothetical life form in a lake of methane ... (more) |
— | about 8 years ago |
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magical number 7 - cognitive limitation of working memory (for bigger brains) It is well known that our working memory (in our brains) is limited to about 7 items, the magical number 7, + or - 2. This is the Miller's law. (our working memory is not at all like the RAM of a computer; it is profoundly associative) Do we have reasons to believe that aliens (or our descendants, ... (more) |
— | almost 9 years ago |