Life is overrated. What we consider life are just mechanisms that are complex enough to feel mysterious, also grow and develop fast enough for us to notice. I

Life is overrated. What we consider life are just mechanisms that are complex enough to feel mysterious, also grow and develop fast enough for us to notice. I don't think looking for life makes much sense. Looking for intelligence (anything you can communicate with to reach meaningful results, insects are also intelligent, pocket calculators also are and that would be cool if they had emerged without the humans building them) and consciousness (no good definition existing to the date) is what is interesting.