Life is multi-phasic, at least 4 kinds of life that people don't give attention to. There's the life in your hull, the effects of your DNA after projected into existence by DNA, the contents of your brain, but that's a function of other people since your brain is mostly filled by others, then there's the data in your DNA itself which is a real kind of life but it's a wave function of "area effect nudges" and your behaivors are just as real as the data and the hull, you share are common ancestor with all life. You share a common ancestor with the universe.
I could elaborate and clarify but there's at least a dozen ways to procreate in ways other than sexually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU 