Energy As The Essence of Sentience

[Paleophyte]

I define life as sentience.

I define sentience as death. It follows that life is death and your definition is exposed as being false. That's the trouble with argumentation by definition. Any nitwit can do it and it has all the value of a cotton candy submarine.

There really are some fascinating relationships between energy, life, and sentience so it's kind of a shame that you're making a hash of it all by chasing superstition up a tree.