Thinking about organisms that can survive in arid conditions by becoming totally desiccated. On the macro scale the eggs or suspended forms of these creatures aren't very different from the dry soil & jumbled organic matter that surround them. But, due to their structure, they can begin living again.
Is it too much to say that the difference between living & dead organic material is... encoding?
Naively it seems like this boundary is a place to look for the origins of living processes.
