Yes – it might not be real good at it, but close enough.

That’s at the viable living thing level, not yet considering whether it can expand into its environment or reproduce.

Ability to reproduce makes it a competitive living thing. Other living things are gonna develop the ability to reproduce, so you better too if you’re going to survive.

Viable living thing could be called SSO: self-sustaining organization, or ASSO: actively self-sustaining organization. Just asso instead of life.

This article is a stub. Some discussion I’ll be brought over from the overly-long Life post.