The impression of "[something] standing over and above, or, alongside matter, simply is a consequence of an insufficient definition of basic matter. See the image of the carbon atom as a constituent of graphite, diamond, methane, etc. With precisely this, our picture is filled and encumbered. This is, as a result of simplicity and illustrativity, naturally more familiar to us than a constituent-property of the organism, finally inducing a crawling carbon atom. Although this picture is rather funny to the layman, and also having nothing concrete to offer to the habitual thinker, it may spurt the latter to look into the promising direction.