An organism-centered definition of life, inspired by an article on semantic consensus, is that " life is autonomous self-reproduction with variations". This definition is organism-centered (betraying the pre-occupation of its definers) in that it fails to mention life's place as a hierarchically-ordered multi-layer interface between availability-flows and a substrate.
Perhaps someday this dream of being substrate-independent will be realized, but we are probably not there yet.
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