Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-26838620-20150901052756/@comment-26397825-20150903023049

You know, randomly off topic, but fire is almost a living thing. If not for the fact that it doesn't fit number 1 2 or 7, on that list, it would be counting as living.

Fire consumes things to burn, which is classed as using energy.

It responds to it's environment, growing bigger with more wind (but dying with too much), dying with water, and so forth.

Fire grows as you feed it more fuel, and it consumes more energy.

Fire reproduces by coals sitting in the ashes that can relight if encouraged, and also by the sparks that spread from the fire as it is burning.

You could argue that it adpats to its environment by leaving behind places where there is nothing to consume and instead spreading to locations full of fuel, but I don't know if this counts for step seven.