Oh sure, but you're comparing the wrong states.

If you rip the DNA out of a cell it isn't going to do much either; if only because most of the real mechanisms are RNA (and proteins), while DNA is 'just' the storage. Encapsulate the DNA back into a cell nucleus with the attendant mechanisms, and suddenly you've got something that runs again.

Meanwhile, if you encapsulate an LLM into what's called an 'agentic harness', it's also going to be running much more of the time (depending), specially if it has a what's called a heartbeat or goal loop driving it.

Still not a cell; most definitely not. But the behavior is a wee bit more interesting than some bits on an ssd.

Actually you probably already know this one: Regular daemons are also just bits on your drive, until they get ```systemctl start``` ed

(edit: I literally have a llama.cpp systemd unit running right now)