[allmendream]

Read Erwin Scroninger’s book “What is Life?”.

Life is a structure of molecules that consumes metabolic energy to maintain and replicate its own structures.

Of course by that definition a virus is alive, and some people don't seem to agree with that.

But definitions of things are not the things itself.

Quibbling over definitions is as ridiculous as claiming that Pluto being called a planet or an ‘extra solar body’ has any relevance at all to the accuracy of science, or anything really, other than how astronomers are going to categorize it.

[Alamo-Girl]

Life is a structure of molecules that consumes metabolic energy to maintain and replicate its own structures.

That is a description of what life looks like, but it doesn't answer what life v. non-life/death in nature "is."

Try it on yourself, try answering the question "Who are you?"

If you say, I am a man, then I reply, "but who are you?" and so on.