In the literature often the expression "dynamic" is used, which here evidently is the same as ESF-al [existential self-functional], that is, ESF-al activity. The opposite "static" is here also relevant, because existence must be safegarded by ESF-al acts and behavior, while moreover existence and stability is the only given.
It is not easy to generally speak of a chief distinction between the organismic and the inorganic. One difference lies in the distinct nature of the ESF-al, which in the organismic [domain] results in existentially-necessary ordered-to-the-environment but environment-independent active behavior. The unshakable, automatic, inorganic stability, and the threatened but versatile and powerful ESF-al stability of organisms allows the consideration to be under the viewpoint of "complementarities".
The existence-functional at first sight seems to give a certain foundation to the "machine theory" of organisms, but doesn't allow it consequently to be implemented further -- as long as one doesn't attempt, through "adaptation", to create a vital theory of machines -- resulting in the fact that this theory is not substantially supported by the ESF view.
Mechanics and ESF are so to say opposites, although the ESF documents itself in many a case which all by itself (and for us) is unequivocally "mechanical". This isn't a contradiction. Anyway, also the additive effect of the ESF-al -- but not the directing of the whole -- may carry mechanical features. Mechanics means "unspecific" behavior according to simple, expressible, and known regularities.
Dito : ESF = existant (as in "constant", "resultant") [We might add ESF = subsistant (because it is self-functional], or also : essential.
The stability of a true combinational form of m, n, o, p, ... constituents cannot be derived purely energetically (such as according to the principle of lowest amount of bound and greatest amount of free energy), but needs the ESF, being, as resulting resonance- and superposition-function, back-stabilizing. Thus, as to the individual components : state-fixing, confirming. The ESF must be such that it can resist substantial attacks, which otherwise, seen purely energetically, would certainly have resulted in system disintegration. The ESF is able to do this as a result of a certain exchangeability and mutual damping among "its" constituents. Energetic destruction of the ESF results in its vanishing and allows the next lower ESF's to become actual (only as such, though). Chemical syntheses and analyses are -- like "transformations" -- transitions and concurrences among ESF's.