Do you think that the elements which brought about life on Earth are universally a requirement for any life to develop? Water, carbon, amino acids etc?
Or do you think life can come about in ways we can't even imagine yet?
Well, they claim the "laws of Nature" are the same across the Universe, but I doubt anyone should presume that the "laws" only work in ways we imagine.
The ONLY conclusions any human can state about "Life" or "how Life works" can only be based upon ONE EXAMPLE: life as we know it on one insignificant speck of a planet in one unimaginably hufe Universe.
That's trying to draw a "LINE" but only having a single known "POINT" to start with.
Who can plot a line (a graph of what Life can be) based upon a single data point? Can't.
Ultimately, even if we rule out "spiritual" or "soul energy" possibilities (and science CANNOT do so, intelligently) ... LIFE seems to be mostly "organization" of something, whether energy or matter or some thing unknown.
Can "life" be some form of organized energy living in the maelstrom of a STAR?
Some form of EM radiation, independent of a biological body?
Can it simply be based upon other chemistry?
Can we be living in other dimensions without knowing it, our consciousness "nourished" or "organized" by gravity bleeding in from other Universes?
If Space/Time can curve in simple ways ... can it curve in ways complex enough that it becomes a self-aware LIVING creature spun of Time and Space in 11+ dimensions ... as we think WE are only spun of bio-electrical interactions in a mere 4 dimensions?
There was a fascinating TV show on (THE UNIVERSE) that spoke of our limitation of the "lightspeed horizon" -- how there are parts of the Universe we can never see, because all of Space/Time is EXPANDING faster than the light from it can reach us.
It's not that the Universe isn't BIGGER than 13.7 billion light years across ... we'll just never see beyond that bubble because the light coming TOWARDS US from it is ... retreating from us ... as Space expands AWAY faster than the light APPROACHES (um ... I think I understood that)
So ... yes, LIFE is probably complex and alien to our notions, and beyond our wildest dreams and fantasies.