What Defines Life?

Life can be looked at from numerous perspectives, allachieved its goals was not long.
of which would contain a physical, emotional,However, it is worth noting that in most cases when
psychological, spiritual, intellectual or social aspect.the question about life arises, it more often than not
There is no one concrete and agreed upon definitionconstitutes a philosophical aspect in it. This means
for the mystery, but different scholars have tried tothat people will be interested in finding out the
come up with definitions that would fit theimportance or even the significance of human
description.biological life. In as much as there are many scholars
Maybe one of the definitions that seem to fitwho have tackled the question about life, one thing is
without much controversy is the one that says thatfor sure; that not one of them has been able to tell
life is the period during which something is operational,us exactly why we are here on earth, what life is all
functional or usable. In other words, it is the periodabout and what the meaning of it all is.
between which something or somebody is born, andThrough theological and scientific speculation
the period when they die. This refers to bothhowever, all definitions point out to the purpose of
animate and inanimate things. For example, it islife and what it really is. We have been made to
possible to say that a project had a short life,understand that, this period of functionality is a
meaning that the period between when it wascombination of many chemical and physical processes
conceived and the time it came to an end or itthat are basically beyond our human understanding.