intelligent life

:  having or indicating a high or satisfactory degree of intelligence and mental capacity

:  revealing or reflecting good judgment or sound thought :  skillful

:  possessing intelligence

:  the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body

:  a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings

:  an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism (see metabolism 1), growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction

:  of or relating to animate being

:  lifelong

:  using a living model