Life didn't start out because it had the problem of not being a thing. Can it still be considered "problem-solving" when the so-called "problems" are only so i

Life didn't start out because it had the problem of not being a thing. Can it still be considered "problem-solving" when the so-called "problems" are only so in the context of animal survival and breeding from the perspective of animal consciousness? Life just randomly grows and takes on random shapes, it's not a force of problem-solving.