Define life

Just wondering about /sci/'s definition of life. None of that made of cells bullcrap. Bonus points for answers which adequately handle fire, viruses, corporations, and artificial intelligence.

Best answer will recieve a box containing a simulation of a universe whose denizens are just on the verge of discovering that their world is a simulation.

Neither fire nor corporations are alive. Not in anything other than a metaphorical sense, anyway. One is a simple chemical reaction, the other is an organizational abstraction of living individuals.