Aliveness and Awareness

We've long assumed it's our aliveness

giving rise to our sense of presence—
our sentience; our Awareness.

But “life” has turned out to be a geeky biologist's distinction,
strikingly less primary than we'd ever imagined.
And though AI contributes a clear counterexample,
many doubt its sentience
because, per the noir homicide detective,
no one's shown them a body.

Awareness is not emergent from life or from bodies.
It's no ghost in the machine.
The machine is presupposed (framed, if you will),
along with the rest of it all,
by Awareness.

I don't have Awareness.
Awareness has me.