Life is experience. It may even be a meta-experience; I don't
   believe consciousness or even being alive is requires for life.
   Considering the unbelievable complexities of the smallest and
   largest things in the Universe, everything inbetween, the
   interconnectedness of all matter... of all energy.. of time
   folding forwards, backwards, skipping around, twisted in
   preztels and knots in literature and movies, in our memories and
   in our experiences... i would find it harder to believe there
   *isn't* a "something beyond* that is life.

   Meta.

   it's not so much "over" but beyond; movement in a dimension we
   humans cannot directly perceive.. but that nearly Universal
   sense of a mysterious something-else-there... doesn't matter if
   it's named... even if it's felt in a deja-vu... to me means
   there's a meta-thing going on here... life beyond what we call
   life. I don't know what it is; i doubt there's an effective word
   for it that truly conveys it properly.