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Peter Klevius onthology tutorial: 'Life' is an arbitrary definition that spans from everything within our existencecentrism* to a more or less narrow 'human being'**.

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* Existencecentrism "repairs" the metaphysical flaw in the concept 'anthropocentrism'. The latter implies there's an alternative although that's logically impossible because that alternative is by necessity also anthropocentric. Existencecentrism hence defines 'metaphysics' as the very acceptance of existencecentrism as motion/change, i.e what we call the world is existence. Without motion/change (what Peter Klevius uses to call uncertainty i.e. the very "meaning of life") no existence, and with existence nothing beyond it. So wheras conventional metaphysics may be described as anthropocentrism it never crosses the border of existencecentrism. The term 'existencecentrism' was first publicly introduced in Peter Klevius book Resursbegär (Demand for Resources) in 1992 - and strongly approved by Ludvig Wittgenstein's successor at Cambridge, G. H. von Wright who, in 1991 when reading my final manuscript, although he wasn&#