I'd still consider all sci-fi stories and images quite inside the box thinking. The idea is that our brains are hard-wired to think the way they do. So we can't

I'd still consider all sci-fi stories and images quite inside the box thinking. The idea is that our brains are hard-wired to think the way they do. So we can't really think outside of our small subset of reality. I believe, In the slim chance we encounter some kind of 'life', it wouldn't be even considered as life by our standards. Just a simple quiz to exercise the brain: - should life move at all? - what's the maximum distance between molecules we can still consider as one entity? - can a state of matter be 'life'. Not a matter itself, but just a state of it?