Originally Posted by Recurring Villain
The optimal form for life to take is a form of self-replicating nanomachine with a collective intelligence which would then spread across the entire universe until all matter was a single collective intelligence, which would effectively become like a God.
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But that raises this question... could such an intelligence already exist? It obviously doesn't give a hoot about us if it does, but it is possible. Regardless of when it appeared, if there is life elsewhere, surely one rose to this level of advancement or was born that way.