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  Life is just a set of very, very complex chemical processes. 
  The disconnect here is just our intrinsic understanding of life as a holistic quality rather than as the sum of a metric fuckton of chemical processes.
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  You aren’t constituted of the atoms that make you up, but rather the relations between them. This is why you are more “alive” than your parts individually. >
  
  But the relations between my atoms are the same as the ones between a rock’s atoms. They still exchange electrons, they still answer the physical laws in the same way. But my relations, differently from a rock, have a sense which is literally trying to go against the universe thermodynamic fundamentals: we constantly try to overcome entropy. Why a rock doesn’t do the same? >
  
  Your parents lied to you and told you that you weren’t just a rock. You’ve believed them since then. A rock has complex lattice systems, but no sense of inside or outside. Why run from entropy when you are the environment into which you decay? The only reason you continue being you is your decision to deny the fact that you are not (your parents made this decision before you did). You are an instance of temporary and extremely local organization and complexity, but you ultimately serve to push the universe further towards entropy with your actions after all is done.