Damn it's funny to have a chemist talk so freely about life not necessarily being biological, when it's rare even to hear physicists say so. Maybe Rupert Sheldrake is wrong and a little too enthusiastic about this idea, but as was mentioned in this interview, if the sun for example was conscious, how would we ever be able to communicate or even recognize it and vice versa. There could be so many forms of life on so many incredibly diverse scales. I think our search for life ought not to be limited to little green men. But while the politicians and self obsessed mainstream entertainment/media morons have all the cash thinking like this won't even be taken seriously, never mind get any funding.