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.