What type of biological life will more than likely be found on other planets?

With it's highly flexible ability to see and communicate using the full EM spectrum....(for example)?Imagine "music" or "art" or the expression of equations that utilise such abilities.I dunno. It's all wild speculation. But I'm not sure "hands" are so essential for such intelligence. Although an ability to interact and manipulate the physical world in some sense would seem quite a likely development given it's obvious survival advantage."Sight" of some sort seems highly likely given the number of times it has developed independently on Earth. In the same way that a quadraplegic human might?

How so if it's using only it's body with no technological aids?

You want me to give a living real example of a hypothetical alien with certain abilities before you are willing to discuss hypothetical aliens with those hypothetical abilities......Oh.

If everything so far discussed constitutes "technology" as far as you are concerned can you give me an example of something that you do think is indicative of "intelligence" rather than "technology"...?How are we going to recognise intelligence if not in terms of these sorts of abilities?

But we are talking about intelligence comparable to our own.When the rest of us use the term intelligence we are talking about that which we humans possess and which we can recognise in other beings (alien or otherwise) through the abilities they have.You for some bizarre reason are insisting that we call this technology (whether it actually involves anything that the rest of us would usually call technology or not)Putting aliens to one side for a moment - How do you recognise intelligence (as opposed to technology) in other human beings?
Oni’s rather broad description seems as good a starting point as anySo it is unclear why you feel the need to apply your own meanings to words in order to disagree.

When we talk about ‘intelligence’ in the context of SETI (for example)we are talking about that thing which we humans possess and which allows us to create and use technology.
This is the ‘intelligence’ that is being referred to here and it is this that we are looking for in alien beings.What exactly you mean by ‘intelligence’ in this context remains pointlessly unclear and you are unlikely to have any meaningful conversation with anyone in this thread on that subject as long as you insist on applying your own mysterious meanings to words.

We aren't the only animals that exhibit signs of intelligence. Indeed primates are not the only type of animal that exhibits signs of intelligence either. That intelligence exists in a number of species does suggest that it provides evolutionary advantage at least in some contexts. That is why it evolved. This seems inarguable. But man can, and does, hunt and eat all of these things. And we do it without being particularly strong, without having very impressive teeth or claws etc. We are able to do it because we as a species have taken the intelligence route and run with it to a degree greater than anything else on our planet.That intelligence taken to a similar or greater degree on another planet somewhere would provide similar advantage seems pretty inarguable. Big teeth will get you so far. But communication and the intelligence to create technology that allows us to shape our environment and compete physically with critters that are far more physically impressive will trump teeth and claws.

And the answer most of us are supplying is something along the lines of: Those that possess attributes which enable them to adapt and survive.And then intelligence is being forward as an attribute which potentially aids adaption and survival.I’m not sure why you keep insisting that this is off-topic. It seems very much on topic.

I don’t know. But I would speculate that a strict predator prey relationship fosters rather niche physical specialisms whereas intelligence is more the result of having to continually adapt and more likely to come about in something that might be both prey and predator. Something with a more mid-range position in the food-chain that encourages adaptability..But I may well be talking completely out of my arse here.

Why not address it now? Because I think many here think you have the whole intelligence/technology thing completely arse over tit.

I was interested to find out that dolphins (amongst the most intelligent of animals) seem to exhibit the very human-like tendency to kill for fun...... Link

I agree with your chain of thought. But it's still pretty speculative on both our parts....

If going to where the item is was always easier than bringing the item to those who wish to utilise it trade would never have developed.Trade is a result of communication and the ability to reason abstractly. Both of which are aspects of intelligence......

Nor does it seem they have developed the ability to think abstractly to the extent humans have, nor have they taken control of their environments to the extent we have, nor have they developed the technology that allows us to overcome our physical shortcomings etc. etc. etc.In short no other critters on Earth have developed the level of intelligence exhibited by humans to give us the adaptive advantage that we possess.That intelliegence provides this adaptive advantage is what myself and others (most comprehensively Bluejay) are saying. That such adaptive abilities would also be useful and thus potentially naturally selected for in other alien environments is also being suggested.Why you think an attribute that aids adaption isn't likely to evolve more than once in the vastness of the universe remains very unclear.

Do you think that human-like intelligence facilitates adaption to, and control of, the environment to an extent that aids surival?