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Or is it?

Could silicon based life function basically like computers? As in, sending electrical signals through the air to each others?

After all, if you can have carbon based creatures that can communicate by chemicals (such as ants) then can't you have the above? Isn't true telepathy, of course, but it works short-range. That's the Centrians explained!