Many living patterns are clearly similar to non-living ones, and there may even be some scale steps between the structures we are comparing. Even in cases that there is not a prove yet, these similarities indicate that parts in a living structure incline to order like parts in non-living structures. Or, while a plant might order organs in an inherited way, the first choice is automatic activity.
In these examples, the left picture shows the artificial context, the center a magnification of it, and the right picture shows a 'living counterpart'.
(bottom) The Mandelbrot Set... a set of points in the complex plane?