He offered two definitions; that life acts in a manner to achieve a goal, and that life continuously decreases internal entropy.

Every control system does these things. It acts in a manner to achieve a goal (keeping a perception close to a reference value), and if successful, that implies that the entropy of the thing it is controlling decreases.

That does not make all control systems living things.

So, dissolve "life."

Done long ago. Vitalism is dead.