Triadic Definition of Life

This paper proposes a triadic definition of life. Life is neither an entity, a property, a relation, nor a process, but an irreducible change. Science rests upon finitude—upon conservation, symmetry, and reversibility—yet no finite, including our cosmos and everything in it, can explain why it is, or how it comes to be. Life is defined here as one of three irreducible changes: conservative (E), symmetrical (M), and non-conservative and asymmetrical (OC). Only OC makes the infinite possible, and the infinite possibility makes every finite exist. Life as life can only be understood ontologically.