I would qualify "alive" things as anti entropic organisms. Organisms wich reduce #entropy of the universe by consuming energy, with the goal of keeping a inner order stable. In medicine you call that state of order "Homeostasis"

- "Health"

Homestais (live) happens through emergence.

Spontaneous order emerges and all individual actors starve to keep that order "alive"

We all starve to keep #Bitcoin "alive" -