Brudda Snowman, I'm reading through your report now. It's obvious that you have given this quite a bit of thought. My first comment would be I'd like to see the sources of your notions, much of this seems like a personal take on what you have personally studied and experienced through programming, and I was looking for terms like Noesis, Cognition, and Evolution and possible citations of your sources.
I do like how you explain yourself, but my biggest discrepancy with your overall essay is it's foundation. Your logic seems clear enough to have a flow on that foundation, but i do not agree with your basic premise. My principle discrepancy is that you credit the body for creating life, where as from my perception the body is a host for life, not its creator, but it's 'visible' host.
My basic argument on this is I do not agree that prior to the big bang there was no life. A basic premise for such a claim would be the number 1, before there was a big bang, there was 1 location where the big bang happened. This 'idea' is that IT ( information technology ) existed before man kind, because there was '1' big bang.
The logic behind this is a system of numbering had to exist for '1' beginning. The value of 1 did not occur when man was born, the value of 1 was appreciated upon the birth / creation of man. but there was '1' beginning.
Further, I also base my ideas on the idea of Baldwinian evolution or rather the evolution of the 'capacity' of knowledge, but not knowledge itself, and moore's law. It seems that it is in mans nature to progress and learn. This seems in order with the number 1, and its natural progression, ...whats the next number ? thus the instinctive desire in man to know moore (s law ).
IT would seem to me that life as 'we' know it, is a matter of perpetual discovery. But life in general is a matter of motion, and motion happened before Mankind, be it only a motion of thought to establish the number 1. A car is metaphorically dead when it stops moving.
I am up to the AI programming part of your report, but I am focused on the philosophy of life, rather than the mechanics of its host.