[Dimensio]

I can pile all the chemicals in all the right places in all the right proportions onto a hospital bed and I can't make you.

Are you sure about that? If you had the means to completely replicate my physical structure based upon a single "snapshot" of my existence, with every atom in the same relative location and all of the potential energy loaded in the right places, are you sure that it wouldn't be indistinguishable from me?

[sig226]

Are you sure that it would be? We can't take the right chemicals, even though we know the exact proportions, and make a single celled organism that is alive.