I am not to sure if this is really the correct section for this but here goes anyway.
Everyone and everything we see, feel , taste, touch, breath etc is made completely of atoms ( i hope this is correct, as it is the basis for my question!)
My question is how does a collection of atoms become animate? What is it that causes this? Say for instance if we took the most basic organism known to man, managed to map every atom which makes that organism what it is, then collected the "shopping list" of atoms and began re-creating it, would it be animate? Or is there an extra process that does this?
I know what i describe is not possible, i know atoms are not just lego bricks which can be used to construct with. But if this process were possible what you end up with?