[Bill DeWitt]

6) Fight Or Flight - The ability of the Agent to detect possible dangers to it's existence and to determine whether to attempt escape or self-defense.

   Besides blatantly assuming that dangers exist, it also assumes what you attempt to test. To protect its life from danger, it must have a life to protect. So that proves it?s alive. Will it go ?round in circles?

This fails the tests I used in #4 and #5. It ignores the possibility of a static construction and ignores those forms of biological life which can neither fight nor flee.

Decreasing the standard of Fight or Flight to a level which includes all biological life would also lower it to the point that one could say that Ice is alive because when exposed to fire, it melts and puts out the fire.

Suggest you change this to ?2) Ability to react to stimuli.?