I understand your meaning. Life “as we know it” is a narrow view of what possibilities there may be for life. And there may absolutely be some kind of life that is built on other materials. At the same time, water (and carbon) have particular chemical properties that make them fundamentally important for building stuff from molecules in general, that goes beyond “we only use those cuz they happened to be here”
It has important qualities to us because we evolved to exist in it as a medium…
If life evolved in liquid methane, then methane would have important qualities that we’d think are needed.
Like, that was the whole point of my comment
But I disagree. Water is special and unique. You can’t just swap it with a random liquid and have the same support for life.
As we know it…
I’m sorry I can’t explain this in a way that helps you understand
I understand your meaning. Life “as we know it” is a narrow view of what possibilities there may be for life. And there may absolutely be some kind of life that is built on other materials. At the same time, water (and carbon) have particular chemical properties that make them fundamentally important for building stuff from molecules in general, that goes beyond “we only use those cuz they happened to be here”
I believe that silicon has similar properties to carbon, so it’s been theorized that silicon based life is out there.