Some fun ideas, because there's absolutely no reason why life should be so biological, as you say: - Some ancient civ managed to run computing hardware on the

Some fun ideas, because there's absolutely no reason why life should be so biological, as you say: - Some ancient civ managed to run computing hardware on the surface of cooler stars (there are stars that allow non trivial surface chemistry) - the same but with gas giant planets near their metallic or rocky cores - Gamma ray bursts are galactic compute nodes syncing data