A thing/subject recognizes itself as alive or not with the knowledge it has acquired about it. Probably, when this knowledge is absent, the question of aliveness becomes insignificant as there is no subject experiencing the aliveness. The knowledge being the result of the conditioning by thought, and thought being transient with out any permanent ground to withstand, creates a temporary illusion /subject in the human brain that it’s alive , autonomous and a separate entity. this process of thought created human robot which always clings to the past and projects to the future and so is the artificial intelligence.