Built things vs living things have radically different properties.

A built thing, like a building, has to be designed by someone to be able to carry a load.

It needs someone else to carry in their mind a complete conception of it that is viable in the real world.

A living thing like a tree can sense where a branch is swaying and build up more lignin there to help resist the sway.

The tree doesn't even need to have a full conception of itself, it just does the obvious thing in the local situated sub-context, and a coherent whole emerges, automatically.

Living things adapt for free. Built things cannot adapt themselves.