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The drive was that I don't believe the original question, "Can a living creature be as big as a galaxy" is reasonable for organisms we are familiar with. If we hope to answer such big hypothetical questions, we may need to find ourselves in foreign lands as well.

We are discussing hypothetical life forms, different to the ones on Earth. Obviously we can not use a definition of life which only applies to earth-based life: we need to generalize more.

Do you believe its possible for a computer, more specifically an Artificial General Intelligence, to be "alive" (if one such thing ever gets built)?

Conscious? Yes (possibly). Alive? No.

I'd say It differently. Intelligent? Yes Conscious? Probably not.

Does intelligence imply life? I'd say no.