What are some environments where a self-replicating, possibly self-aware, evolving pattern might arise other than on planets roughly like ours? Those who look for signs of life seem to be looking for organic life (i.e. the Viking lander experiments) but might we be missing something because of narrow-mindedness, because we naturally based our assumptions on the nature of alien life on the only other life we are aware of, ourselves. Isn’t this similar to the logical fallacy that the universe must have been created specifically for us because everything is just right for us to evolve?
I’ve read science fiction stories with a wide variety of non-Earthlike life, creatures that live in gas giants, stars, neutron stars, nebulae, deep space. Since there’s a lot more of that than Earthlike planets, isn’t it likely that life would have evolved there too?