More or less, yes. Very sloppily at first. My "look for life here" candidates are basically planets (or moons!) where a liquid solvent is present (so you can

More or less, yes. Very sloppily at first. My "look for life here" candidates are basically planets (or moons!) where a liquid solvent is present (so you can have chemistry happen more readily), warmer (faster reaction, so you can have the chemistry happen faster, and therefore again and again), and with cycles (not tidally locked, a moon helps). I'm still something of a carbon chauvinist, but I am open to different solvents and other chemistries.