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. The scientific methods of sense perception and use of reasoning power of limited intellect cannot be of any avail in finding an answer to the age-old problem whether the egg came first or the chicken. The mystery about life and consciousness can be unravelled either at the point of conception of life or at the point of its departure from the physical body. Life is something apart and biology is an independent science. Driesch insisted that life itself is a non-material, metaphysical force that produced order and form.