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Bob

I find it quite interesting that many can accept life and consciousness springing from an inanimated mix of minerals and chemicals in the 5% of the universe we can see and then totally reject any notion of something similar happening from whatever occupies the 95% of the universe we say we can’t see.

The reason it seems unlikely that life would arise from dark matter and dark energy is that they are, well, dark.

The only known chemistry for life is organic chemistry in liquid water. The only places known that we can get stable liquid water are the surface of a planet in a stable orbit around a stable star in a fairly narrow range of distances of not too hot and not too cold for water to be liquid, or deep inside a moon of a large planet in a sub-surface ocean kept warm by tidal effects of that orbit.

Most of the visible stuff in the universe is also unsuitable for life, such as stars and interstellar gas.

It seems exceedingly unlikely that organic chemistry in liquid water could arise in dark matter or dark energy.  How would that even work at all?

Lots and lots of unsuitable stuff is still unsuitable.