jar writes:
For decades those seeds exhibit none of the signs we associate with "being alive".
Could that be considered as 'resuscitation'? (I don't know.)
But make that a rhetorical question, as I suspect it is off-topic.
But I agree with your point that things behave 'dead' and then behave 'alive'.
One of the parts that 'life' criteria often has is "can".
i.e. The organism
can reproduce.
From this it could be said that a dormant seed
can grow, reproduce, etc. depending on external conditions.
But this (again) starts drifting into a bespoke definition of life for seeds which requires extra conditional statements.
e.g. A seed is alive - but only if it is in moist soil.
It all gets a bit messy.