I recognized it because I am stretched into it too. Life is a networked thing-a distributed being. It is one organism extended in space and time. There is no individual life. Nowhere do we find a solo organism living.
Life is always plural.
Life entails interconnections, links, and shared multiples. The apparent individuals that life has dispersed itself into are illusions. We live one life, distributed. Life is a transforming flood that fills up empty containers and then spills out of them on its way to fill up more. The shape and number of vessels submerged by the flood doesn't make a bit of difference.