Is Consciousness the Principle of Life?

Could we take raw construction materials and build a fabricated object, without making it alive? That's right. But i has consciousness to it. And i would, i think i'm in allignment with you on this question. You don't have the components for, ah, what a soul would be the principle of life. Although the other point now i want to dive into is, it seems like in the debate over whether something is conscious or not, it may be something that you can't ever resolve anyways. Because there's a difference between something being conscious and something displaying the behavior of a conscious individual. The whole point of creating like chat robots that just communicate texts to you, they imitate