Viruses are incredibly weird, as they exist on the edge of our definition of life. The problem is most likely our definition of life. If we expand the definition to include viruses, then we have to include other obviously non-living things like artificial intelligence and living things that aren't organisms, like prions. But viruses are currently the edge case in the argument, as SciShow explains. -via Geeks Are Sexy
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I mean think of it this way. Let's say hypothetically Free Will doesn't exist, and everything is just raw determinism. Now let's assume some entity or some force, set natures determinism into motion. In a way, we are in a simulation, even if not a computer simulation. And the simulation is just playing itself out on all levels, from virus to elephant. So based on that, if humans are "alive" than most everything else is too. As "alive" as it can be. In the same way sexual orientation has a spectrum, than Alive also has a spectrum.
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