How does consciousness trump everything else for something to be alive?

Trees and grass and bacteria and many undergraduates are all considered alive. But we wouldn't exactly consider them to be conscious.

Intelligence is not a prerequisite for life, and life is not a prerequisite for intelligence. Likewise, self-awareness is not a prerequisite for life, and life is not a prerequisite for self-awareness.

Life is pretty much what I said above. It needn't be organic, but it needs more than just the ability to learn and recursive self awareness.


Bwa ha ha haaaa!!