Vitalism and Physics

Rarely recognized is that Spinoza's Pantheism is Vitalist. But, while its Animate-Inanimate distinction is one of degree of complexity, in Bergson's Vitalism, Matter is degenerated Life.  On that basis, Physicist reductionism of humans is degradation of them.  However, in his 1920s exchanges with Einstein, Bergson does not resort to a Moral argument to challenge that concept of the Physicist universe.