Yes, the boundary between life and non-life is not sharp, but to claim it follows that life is hard to define would be the continuum fallacy (https://en.wikiped

Yes, the boundary between life and non-life is not sharp, but to claim it follows that life is hard to define would be the continuum fallacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy) Manufacturing a living cell from purely chemical ingredients is a concrete enough goal. And almost certainly it lies far, far off in the future.