Does it matter if it is small or large?
Does it matter if it can communicate with the environment and respond to it?
Does it matter whether it can move or not move?
Does it need to be conscious for us to call it living? Is bacteria conscious, is it living ? Is AI conscious, is it living?
Does it need to replicate itself?
Does it need to have “DNA”? What about “viruses” that also have DNA? Are they living?
Does it need to be susceptible to another state called “death” to be called “alive”?
Finally we tried to arrive at the most interesting question: what is life or what makes life?
Erwin schrodinger: He proposed that living things maintain their order and structure by taking in energy from their environment and converting it into useful forms to maintain their internal organization. This is different from non-living things, which eventually break down and become disordered over time.