I'm of the opinion that whether something is alive or not is arbitrary, and depends on your definition. Humans just came up with the word to describe a class of

I'm of the opinion that whether something is alive or not is arbitrary, and depends on your definition. Humans just came up with the word to describe a class of things. You could define biological life in a way that includes or excludes viruses, I would suggest, and be right either way. (Also if a biological virus is alive, is a computer virus alive? It's self-replicating and has DNA in the form of code.)