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> There's also a definition of life more appropriate for sentient beings specifically, which I would argue just includes the conscious mind; for that, "brain dead" is "dead" for all practical purposes.

Inanimate objects, also rocks, can also have their life, but that's just a play of words. Also what you call "life" is more accurately described as simply "experience". It's confusing to use term "life" in this context while having two unrelated concepts in mind. A mind is experiencing world, it doesn't mean it's actually alive in a sense it's life processes are working.

What you call "life" for mind and consciousness is a metaphor that you are taking too literally.

Life - working biological processes. People abstract it out to just "working processes". Consciousness is a working process, therefore by applying abstract meaning of "life" you call it alive.

So as you see there's no argument whether mind is a process or not. There is also no argument that mind has to be made of working biological system. So your whole comment is just a confusion of two different processes both of which you call life.