how smart is Jupiter?

One thing you have to deal with, before you deal with how live arose from inanimate matter, is what is life? There are some basic rules like it has to eat something and be able to reproduce, but it seems like in this modern age we could build robotic devices that could do that, and I don’t think we would consider them alive.

We have that soup of organic chemicals, hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and some others, and I don’t think anybody believes they are alive. They can combine to form amino acids, which again I don’t think anybody believes are alive. Then suddenly some kind of primitive bacteria arises. This step is like in those things where there are like five steps to draw the Mona Lisa, and one is you draw a circle and two is you draw a couple triangles, and three something something similar and you are following along whistling a happy tune and suddenly it goes from a few geometric shapes and some lines to the full-grown Mona Lisa, and you are like what?

I think we all agree that that bacteria is alive, but what can that life be? What is it like to be a bacteria? No brain, no heart, nothing to think with, nothing to feel with. I guess when we get to fish we get to something that we feel can have a life of sorts, probably feel happy when they eat a fish, sad when they eat a hook. One thing I always wondered was if the cells that make up our bodies have life. If they all have their own life, where do we come in?

Pretty sure we live in the brain. If we cut off our heads and attach them to one of those science fiction gizmos we will still probably be alive. But if we suffer one of those events where we end up brain dead, even though there are still brain waves going on regulating our lungs and hearts, we are dead, so it’s not those brain waves. But it’s some brain waves, right, but that means when you really get down to it, we are just electric pulses. That would be easy enough to replicate with a computer wouldn’t it? If not with today’s computers, surely with some computers of the future.

Another thing I wonder about is the way we are always looking for water to find other life because we assume it will have to look like us, but if life is just electrical waves couldn’t you have something like that in the gas clouds of Jupiter? Of course how smart could a gas cloud be?