I wonder if we allow enough for this in our search for alien life? Are their other life-forms out there somewhere whose timescales are radically different from ours? How would we find or communicate with them if there were?
like forests? I cannot forget the statement in 'Avatar' describing the 'tree of life'. How is it that memories have not been encoded in massively networked aspen forests? Or may they're there and we just havent looked. And with large encoded memory stores, manipulation of that data is what we call conciousness.
