Consciousness is a different question/problem -- we don't have any good definition for it, and certainly no way to measure it. Rather than saying some things a

Consciousness is a different question/problem -- we don't have any good definition for it, and certainly no way to measure it. Rather than saying some things are life and others non-life, I would instead say that some are living and (most) others, non-living. Are you seriously going to claim there is no objective way to say that a fish is alive and a star isn't? If so, I would surmise that we disagree on fundamental issues and thereby cannot have a productive discussion. "By empirical, objective, materialist measure you are a biological machine - a material process - that's it." Do you have empirical, objective, materialist and definitions of "biological" and "machine"? Or even "process"?