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Originally Posted by Zeraph
Is that not all that we are then?  |
We are the product of a whole bunch of chemical reactions that started billions of years ago with molecules that, by chance, formed in such a way as to cause them to replicate (I think this is the current forerunner among theories of how life started.) Eventually, these molecules developed into forms that chained together, and the rest is history. That's all we are, a collection of substances put together by self-replicating molecules through a series of chemical reactions. We're very complex lumps of stuff and the reactions that keep us going been refined my natural selection for billions of years, but in the end we're just organic materials.