Maybe the closest modern scientific analog would be homeostasis, "the state of steady internal physical and chemical conditions maintained by living systems." The ancients tried to concretize this idea as some kind of "fluid" (or, in more modern parlance, "energy").
When a living being dies, it seems like something is leaving its body, as if the body were just a vessel holding something non-tangible-- spirit, soul, pneuma, energy, life force, 𝘴𝘩𝘦́𝘯... Also, when a new life arises, it always comes from some other living being, as if there was some kind of conservation law.
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