“From a physics perspective, the form of matter movement known as life has no more meaning than any other movement of matter. You can’t find any new physical laws in life, so from my standpoint, the death of a person and the melting of an ice cube are essentially the same thing.
He could be wrong. He accepts quantum mechanics, so he should be open to there being things to discover in the complex interaction that is life and consciousness - even if it follows the same material laws. It could be a theater/scene on which to discover material laws even if "life" is just material
