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Is It Necessary to Conflate Living Things With Organic Things?
All of the life here on earth is carbon based which means it's organic that's what organic means is based on carbon chemistry there are other chemistries that could theoretically support life probably the most famous of them is silicon based chemistry. At the at the temperatures and pressures where you could get a silicon chemistry to work for life it would be hard to have like liquid water wouldn't exist or wouldn't be usable by the life. So so no I don't restrict life to carbon based chemistries at all I agree with Carl Sagan carbonbased chemistries areBy far the most likely forms of life but it is possible for there to be other chemistries as well however the computers and a eyes and and