Life is a given ,just like inert matter. They're both the result of the heterogene force and the homogene force that is at the basis of the logic of energy. Add to that the process the actualization and potentialisation dance that accompaigns those forces and you have, like Lupasco stated in his Logic of energy, what you need to produce, on another level of reality, the quantum world and the mind. Both are the result of the third included state that emerges when actualization/potentializatin and the homogene/heterogene forces are equal. Go check Lupasco's page on Wiki for a start or what a guy called Brenner wrote about his work. He cracked the code. But in French, a long time ago, and he is forgetten now.