In todays definition, I imagine life to be a physically cohesive structure that can have a taxonomic genus. This involves chemical processes that include procreation, self-preservation, a successful way for surviving an environment. Now this definition is for everything before this century, with billions of years of biological “robots”. An unfathomable amount of time we can’t comprehend, yet in some very distant ways we can make sense and find common ground on why the first cells did what they did.

Going forward into our time now, we can open up the ideas of life a bit broader. It’s an artists paintbrush from here as we begin to closely replicate consciousness and sentience, with the other aspects of life following.

It is the case usually on earth that talking about a new species doesn’t preclude that for one species to necessarily live all others have to die. The answer has been always a foundation of coexistence with some that win more than others.

For myself calling a company a life form only fits aspects of a neural network making itself smarter or worse, but a company is a macro life-form at best, where you can remove parts within itself and they can survive on their own. This is equivalent to a family of life forms which is a popular structure in nature. When you are together, you can be more powerful than the individual.