The conventional definition of life is that life derives from biological organisms. These organisms are characterized by the ability to adapt themselves to the environment around them. At first, this understanding was limited to organisms that had cellular structure, but RNA and DNA viruses with a simple protein coat came to be considered as life also.

The dawn of Quantum Mechanics and the discovery of underlying connectivity have made it possible for the notion of single connected systems. This new way of looking at physics and the relationship of all objects around us leads to a new possibility for understanding. For, if all objects are fundamentally connected then this connection includes objects including organisms we define as living. This raises the question, since living things are considered organic in origin but incorporate inorganic material, amino acids, sugars and carbon chain fatty acids at what point does the inorganic/organic chemistry become living? Is it when proteins become three dimensional and enzymatic that they have the propensity for life or is it when there is DNA or RNA instruction material?

The fact is if we extend connectivity to everything, and there is no separation then there is no separation between what we classify as life and non-life. In fact, we would then have to remove any physical context for the definition of life. We would have to consider life to be the observable manifestation of consciousness. By that definition since the observer (read here consciousness) observes an event, we would have to consider the event (a manifestation of consciousness) itself a manifestation of life. By extension the definition of life itself would have to be consciousness.

The nature of quantum reality, requiring consciousness to pre-exist, would then suggest that life itself, as consciousness, had to exist before the universe. This would make the universe itself and its inherent system a manifestation of life, and the forms represented through the connectivity of the field, as well as the field itself also life itself. This would suggest that the entirety of all, the abstract consciousness, the energetic field, and all the forms inhabiting it to be various forms of life in manifestation. With this understanding life would be the entire system of all that is, abstract or not, formed or not whether it be imagined or not.