is yogurt an animal?

The question here is : what is life?

Yogurt matrice could be considered as not living while is composed of proteins assemble and nutrients.
On the other hand bacteria are living...
Thought bacteria aren't animal because thez are uni-cellular.

Now about emotion:

For me an animal need a centralised neural response to emotion stimulus like pain.
As exemple Human feel pain and emotion because the electric info is analysed in the encephal where emotive structure analyse it (tonsil brain). Instead, a non emotive animal like some species of frog only have reflex arc where the neural info stop in the vertebral columns...

Crystal liquid Plasma and non living stuff shure don't have "consciousness" for now...

...But everything could exist in the reality, as human, you trust!

"Would perhaps the war between man and machine..." this is why you post it on Zero-K forum? :P

^ lol ffc.. how i move it now? can i?

discriminating question...

the rest wasnt a question just some lore i made up =P

sorry its not good i should just delete it?

i think i meant more that machine wars might be unemotional and not that human wars dont involve resources

This is a complicated cluster of interconnected, poorly-defined human-related notions, such as consciousness, self-awareness, mind, qualia, emotions etc. And there are a lot of theories, scientific and philosophical, trying to explain those concepts, but they are all have their shortcomings. The fact is, we don't have in this area anything similar to evolution theory in biology or general relativity + quantum mechanics in physics.

And it is even more complicated because those notions are tainted (often tacitly) by the religious idea of "soul".

In such state of affairs, it seems that the general question "what is ..." (consciousness, emotions, mind, and so on) is quite pointless. It should come in context, in other words, be complemented by a purpose of asking.

For example, people may be interested in consciousness (and the related concepts) for those reasons:

1. Technological, e.g. is it possible to transfer (upload) a human mind into the computer?

2. Moral-legal, e.g. at which stage turning off an AI will be considered as a murder?

3. Scientific, e.g. what exactly is the cause of the wave function collapse?

4. Exploratory, e.g. what are the possible altered states of consciousnesses, how to reach them and how to come back?

...and the list could be continued: education, medicine, warfare, psychology...

yogurt (or more precisely, yogurt cultures) can't die, and therefore you can't call them animals; there is no point at which its fermenting, or other autonomous functions, will cease aside from if you were to destroy it completely, every last cell. For something to be a living being, it needs the ability to die, and yogurt can't die.