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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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.