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."

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SW-User

I don't know. Is there some kind of official guidelines for the chemical make up of sentient life?

Maximusmax · M

@SW-User I don't know. But I find it interesting how these chemicals come together to form living beings.

SW-User

@Maximusmax Yeah it is interesting for sure.

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.