The driving force of energy that activates all life forms does not appear to be physical but metaphysical. Where physics fails to unravel the mystery of life, metaphysics should succeed. Just as the computer has hardware, software and needs electricity to run it, the living being possesses the hardware of body, the software of conscious mind and relies on life force to activate the physical body and conscious mind. In fact, it is the life force that provides energy to the physical body and light of consciousness to the mind. Life and consciousness appear to always go together and are inseparable.
Life can linger in the body without consciousness in the vegetative state of coma.
However, existence of consciousness in the absence of life is inconceivable as the physical body devoid of blood supply will get decayed and decomposed within a very short time. Life is not the physical body but something different from it. Abiogenesis or origin of life from non-life is, therefore, an impossibility. Scientists are totally wrong in equating life force with life form. Life in a living being is different from the body of inert matter but life, which is ethereal and metaphysical cannot exist independent of the living being.