I'm personally convinced at this point that most everyday distinctions between living and dead are arbitrary human categorizations. Even a "dead body" is teaming with life. As far as "inanimate matter" is concerned, all matter is ultimately part of a plethora of various different cycles and processes of transformation and recapitulation... even if something temporarily looks like it's static to us and our meager little narrow timeframe of experience, it's not.
Just to clarify, I don't mean that these distinctions are meaningless, just that their meaning is inherently embedded in human experience.
Just to clarify, I don't mean that these distinctions are meaningless, just that their meaning is inherently embedded in human experience.