[John21]

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Wouldn't we have to find an element of 'beingness' that is not found in non-organic matter? Which simply adheres to natural laws and gives no evidence of a will to survive.

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That element could well arise from complicated arrangements of non-organic matter. The concepts of solid, liquid, gas is meaningless at the quantum level - only by considering lots of particles together do the bigger concepts emerge. This element may well be the same, something which emerges from suitably constituted arrangements of physical building blocks.

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So whether it was a certain arrangement or we found some missing catalyst, would it be too much of a leap to conclude that something akin to our own feeling of consciousness or awareness of being resulted from this?