Zie de post Leven in dit Blog van 24 september 2014. In het verlengde van de geaccepteerde definitie van Leven is de definitie van een super organisme zoals een bedrijf:
‘Life is a characteristic, distinguishing quasi-abstract objects and availing of functionality to exchange signals and self-sustain, from those that do not have those characteristics, because they have ceased such functions (dead, bankrupt, integrated) or they lack such functions and are classified as inanimate’.