What does an Amoeba "will" with?
That is why betty boop and I call it "field-like". A field is defined as something which exists at all points in space/time - e.g. gravity, electromagnetism, strong and weak atomic.
We observe, at bottom, at the most primative levels of life, a field-like "will to live".
Using information theory to analyze molecular biology, the will is the cause, the inception or beginning of a cascade of successful communication in a living organism to accomplish that will. In the amoeba, the will to live causes it to engulf a prey.