At least regarding this particular piece, it seems to me (microbiology PhD) that we have a perfectly adequate definition of organism (I like a definition of lif

At least regarding this particular piece, it seems to me (microbiology PhD) that we have a perfectly adequate definition of organism (I like a definition of life put forwards by NASA: a self-sustaining chemical system capable of undergoing evolution). It is a definition that allowed us to discover and formulate answerable questions about an interesting and novel (to us, at least) form of life, after all. Moreover, cooperative bacteria forming large-scale structures is not new to science (see, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxococcus_xanthus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxococcus_xanthus). What do you think needs to be added to the definition of organism? What do you think would be gained from that addition?