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Since this is true what do you think makes us sentient beings?

After all we are just a bunch of chemicals. Shouldn't we just be inanimate objects ?

"Almost 99% of the mass of the human body is made up of six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. Only about 0.85% is composed of another five elements: potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, and magnesium. All 11 are necessary for life."
I think our conscience. The conscience is a universal gift of God. It distinguishes between the morally right and wrong and urges us to do that which we recognize to be right. It also restrains us from doing what we recognize to be wrong.

God has given every person a conscience to guard and guide them. This is not the same as the Holy Spirit because He only dwells in those who have believed in Jesus Christ for salvation. However, once we’re saved, the Holy Spirit then works through the conscience, to remind us that some attitudes, thoughts, words, and actions don’t fit our new identity in Christ. The more committed we are to Him, the louder our conscience will be.
Maximusmax · M
@LadyGrace I can agree with the first part
ButterRobot · 51-55, M
The two things aren’t really related..Science has no idea what consciousness is.
Maximusmax · M
@ButterRobot true. They are unable to connect the chemical makeup to consciousness
CharlieZ · 70-79, M
@ButterRobot True.
And that is called (by scientists) the "hard question".
One of the sources of it´s complexity is that knowing about involves something knowing itself.
And that emerged not only because it´s intrinsic "qualities" but necessarily because because and for interacting with a world outside conciousness itself.

Besides that, we should remeber that most of what we know now, were "unknowable" mysteries some time ago.
SW-User
I don't know. Is there some kind of official guidelines for the chemical make up of sentient life?
CharlieZ · 70-79, M
@Maximusmax Francis Bacon, some centuries ago: [b]"...the forms of simple natures, though few in number, yet in their communications and co-ordinations make all this variety."[/b]
Maximusmax · M
@CharlieZ yes the DNA for example is in every living thing including plants
CharlieZ · 70-79, M
@Maximusmax True.
Since Archea, more than 3500 million years ago.
There are also conjectures about probable transitional "predecesors" as "memories", like an ARN based life.
CharlieZ · 70-79, M
"After all we are just a bunch of chemicals. Shouldn't we just be inanimate objects ?"

No.
"Shouldn't we just be inanimate objects" is a non sequitur.
Life comes from within material interactions.
Not even inorganic reactions are "inanimate".
There is not an Platonic like, inmaterial previous "quality" that inhabitate living things.
As much as there is not something like a "Redness" entity, but a certain range of light wavelength.
Maximusmax · M
@CharlieZ alright then
Budwick · 70-79, M
Max - you may be shocked to learn how many here ARE just inanimate objects .
CharlieZ · 70-79, M
@Budwick True.
Posting objects, anyhow.🤣
Success · 26-30, F
You doubt your existence because of a chemistry lesson? Or was it health class?

 
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