We might never meet aliens because we don't even know what we're supposed to search for. Our definition of life is limited to carbon lifeforms, and searches are

We might never meet aliens because we don't even know what we're supposed to search for. Our definition of life is limited to carbon lifeforms, and searches are limited to signals of something that resembles human civilization (e.g., laughably Dyson's spheres). A pretty naive, anthropocentric, reductionist view of the universe if you ask me. Once you stop seeing living beings as carbon actors in a scenic universe, you realize the existence of amazing life forms everywhere, in all scales, and that the definition of "intelligent lifeform" is an illusion.