[1] The usage of the word describes organisms that are made up of information rather than "standalone and unique entities".
Norbert Wiener describes organisms as entities defined by patterns of persisting Shannon information.
An experiment that supports inforgs and the component of Shannon information is the use of DNA as a medium for data storage.
[3] Encoding DNA, which is considered to be the building blocks of organisms, to hold binary information reinforces the idea that living organisms are "persisting patterns of Shannon information encoded within an ever-changing flux of matter-energy".
For example, A human being's identity is not matter or energy but rather encoded by patterns of Shannon information within his/her body.