Life ≠ Alive

If a ‘new type of physical law’ is indeed necessary to explain life, as we think, and as Schrödinger hinted, then we must radically rethink not only our approach to life, but also to physics. The  ‘laws of life’ should be universal in the same sense that the laws of physics are. If we found dead Martian cats, we will have found life on Mars  
To develop a theory of life, we need to put the meaning that Shannon removed back into information, and, by extension, also into physics.

Source: aeon.co