I’m surprised that you only talk about mapping objective data, and not take the next logical step and talk about mapping social data: language, ideas, and narratives. “Life” and “non-life” are social ideas, not objective ones.

And of course there is the mapping of subjective data like feelings, ideas, and desires.

The next logical steps are perhaps Kant, Ken Wilbur, or Jean Baudrillard. Where do you want to go?