Quote Originally Posted by Absurd View Post
Sure, you make a point

A bike isn't a living organism, though, it is inanimate matter. Take oxygen for example which is inanimate matter as well - oxygen enters your lungs and then your bloodstream, travels to cells, and so on. Point I am making is, oxygen doesn't carry a vital force and inanimate materials that make up your body have no special quality of life about them in themselves.

I don't understand your point.

A large part of what makes an organism an organism is life, and the thing which is "life" extends past the tangible and into the realm of the intangible. The self has a similar pattern, the brain (tangible) giving rise to the self (intangible).