NON-LIVING LEAKING. “Scientists have already observed self-replication in nonliving systems. According to new research led by Philip Marcus of the University of California, Berkeley, and reported in Physical Review Letters in August, vortices in turbulent fluids spontaneously replicate themselves by drawing energy from shear in the surrounding fluid.”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/