Yeah, "supposedly", according to you...
No. According to reality.
There is no such thing as "matter-less" life.
Evolution is a
physical process. Life is a
physical phenomena.
Biology is
organic matter interacting.
Except that humans find themselves in an environment or habitat that encourages them toward and in a direction towards getting "better, stronger, smarter"...
That's western culture and success in terms of wealth.
And this will not change now, but will continue on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on... "getting the picture" yet...?
I get the pictures. But it paints only your ignorance on the matter, it seems.
Our technological and social advancements will get better, and better, and better, and go further, and further, and further, and get more advanced, and more advanced, and more advanced, ect, ect...
And then a meterorite strikes or volcano goes off or we go into brutal nuclear warfare or some nasty germ evolves and it's game over.
Without our technology, we'ld be naked sitting ducks.
But for the sake of argument, let's say life has to be in physical form
Again, life IS a physical phenomena...
, using the drake equation, assuming that abiogenesis is common, following evolution and considering the entire universe, do you suppose their is other life, still in the physical forms or bodies, who are way more advanced than we are, and theorize on what this kind of life could be like or has achieved...?
Perhaps.
A good way to do this thought experiment, imo, is to simply look at the history of life on this planet and the amount of times certain traits have developed more then once.
The
vast majority of life's history in this planet, has been single-celled. Multi-celled life is actually quite young, in geological terms. It took some 3 billion years for multi-celled organisms to appear.
Traits I would expect in multi-celled alien life, is first some sense of orientation. Sight, echo-location, "sensing" magnetic fields,...
Some type of locomotion. Also flight, especially if it also has "high" vegetation like tree-type things.
Advanced intelligence? I think it will be extremely rare.
Homo Sapiens only surfaced around 200.000 years ago. Real technological progress has only set in about 10.000 years ago. The "invention age" as I like to call it.
And for most of that 200.000 years, we were pretty clueless still. It took another 199.950 years, before we were capable of building a device that could leave earth's atmosphere.
So it took evolution on this planet
3.6 to 3.8 billion years to come up with a SINGLE species, capable of shooting satellites into space.
Then to think about everything that could have gone very wrong during those 200.000 years for us... Some 70k years ago, humans were on the brink of extinction as well, with a population size of a mere few thousand. Probably due to some vulcano event or alike.
So voila, my long-winded answer.
In short: I won't exclude it as a possibility, but I do expect it to be extremely rare. I expect MOST planets with life, to only have one-celled life.
