{"id":239639,"date":"2026-06-25T22:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/consciousness-may-exist-in-alien-forms-built-from-materials-unlike-earth-life"},"modified":"2026-06-25T22:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:07:13","slug":"consciousness-may-exist-in-alien-forms-built-from-materials-unlike-earth-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/consciousness-may-exist-in-alien-forms-built-from-materials-unlike-earth-life","title":{"rendered":"Consciousness May Exist in Alien Forms Built From Materials Unlike Earth Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/consciousness-may-exist-in-alien-forms-built-from-materials-unlike-earth-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A radical new paper says minds may exist in forms far stranger than brains, reshaping how we think about aliens, AI, and consciousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A radical new paper says minds may exist in forms far stranger than brains, reshaping how we think about aliens, AI, and consciousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}