Alien life on the Mandelbulb (Score 2)

Maybe we're not just looking the wrong *way*, but in the wrong *place*. Maybe *extra-terrestrial* isn't broad enough! Maybe we'll find life other than what's here on Earth in a much broader domain, i.e., maybe we should be looking for *extra-cosmic* life, in other words, life outside our cosmos! How? In the fabric of mathematics itself. Max Tegmark has suggested (and indeed made a career of) speculations that *our* universe is mathematical (he posits the existence of mathematical structures that might be perfectly isomorphic to our own physics and cosmos, thus making them truly the *same* and just as real as our perceived universe). If this is indeed the case, then maybe we should look inside mathematics and see if we can find E.T. there (it does bring up an interesting question of how his phone would work!) This idea first really came home for me when looking at 3D animations (youtube) of the Mandelbulb. Check it out yourself; some of these videos, when you watch them, seem to implore you to just take a closer look to see small organisms or fishes or something even more alien! It sounds crazy, but, if Tegmark is right about any of this, then maybe we should look in the complex (understatement) mathematical multiverse!