You edited out the important part of that quote. Swapping out carbon for silicon is hardly imaginative enough to be worth mentioning when we are talking about p

You edited out the important part of that quote. Swapping out carbon for silicon is hardly imaginative enough to be worth mentioning when we are talking about potential forms of life completely outside what we might expect. We have examples in popular culture already that are neither fragile nor organic: sentient machines. Im not saying that the universe is full of Transformers and Terminators. Just that searching for silicon based life isn’t all that different to search for carbon based life when you consider that life is just a sophisticated machine and you can literally build a machine out of anything.