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[a500lbgorilla]

(Short answer: Everything is made of QUARKS, LEPTONS and BOSONS.
Your hand is made of organs, which are made of tissues, which are made of cells, which are made of molecules, which are made of atoms).

What is it about the same quantity and configuration of quarks, leptons and bosons, that makes the difference between living tissue and non living tissue?

So the question is what is the difference between a pile of carbon dancing around as people have been known to do, and a pile of carbon, set some life on fire, just a pile of ashes?

What is the difference between you right now and you 10 minutes after you die?

That is an awesome question.

[MadMojoMonkey]

That is an awesome question.

It is an awesome question. Awesome in a original sense of the word.