I said these are more important, I did not define life in this way.
I already defined life previously as a self-organizing system which maintains a structure apart from the environment and makes changes in its structures by bifurcation (choices). Self maintenance, awareness,growth, and learning all come from this as life multiplies because another important thing to recognize is that life is highly quantitative and enhanced by a number of things like hierarchical organization. Life weaves its way between the twin deaths of immunity to the environment and domination by the environment, to enhance both sensitivity and independence at the same time. The result is that living things maintain themselves not by invulnerability but by adaptation and are sensitive to the environment not by direct domination but by acquiring information about the environment. But the most important thing to understand is that life is a particular kind of process and NOT a kind of stuff or thing added to matter.
Robots are not self-organizing systems, they are designed - by definition. The medium is irrelevant. When we design things like viruses (with the same biochemistry as ourselves) to do tasks in medicine and engineering then the result is simply another kind of robot, not something which is alive because they are a product of design. And if an electronic or software system manages to come about by self-organization rather than design and maintains that organization making choices not because of programming but because of a bifurcation in their self-organization then they would also be alive (to the degree they self-organize) rather than just being a machine or robot. So while the machines, computers, and robots we have now do not fit my definition of life, I do not rule out the possibility that they may do so in the future.
GOD said that on the day they eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil they would surely die. But they did not physically die and this just points the fact that there are MANY places in the Bible where it speaks of two kinds of life (Luke 9:60 was another of them): physical life and spiritual life. Physical life is a process as I described above. Spiritual life is a connection with God, which I have also explained numerous time before. God created us for an eternal parent-child relationship with Him where there is no end to what God can give and no end to what we can receive. This is the essence of eternal life because only God has what is required to make an eternal existence worthwhile.
On the day Adam and Eve ate of the fruit, their relationship with God was broken by the only thing that can ever break a parent-child relationship, which is when the presence of the parent in the child’s life does more harm than good. To say the relationship was broken by disobedience is nothing but absurd for disobedience and making mistakes is the nature of children and part of the process by which they learn. Putting it down to disobedience is simply convenient for changing religion into a tool of power and manipulation. No what broke the relationship with God was the first self-destructive habit (and that is what sin is) of blaming everyone but themselves for their own mistakes, for this changed God from the perfect teacher into the perfect scapegoat. God had no choice but to cast them out in order to learn that there was no way of escaping the consequences of their own choices and mistakes.