quasi-crystals exhibit non-local organizing features The mark between dead and alive is not always so clear.
Also, we might fail to recognize consciousness in something seemingly "material "
(Just as some people can't see the vax effects / damages in themselves nor their relatives, though it's right in front of them.
anon imagines they exomes are more like demonic entities, servants to deliver maleficent effects, some benign or helpful, than machines.
I doubt they are machines - i.e. strictly material.
The arising of complicated structure in organic life is unexplained, though "science" pretends it knows it.
cf. Work of Rupert Sheldrake