Is it impossible or do we just not have the technology required?
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We don’t understand the human body NEARLY enough to make one any other way than regular human reproduction. We don’t even have names for over half of the necessary organisms that live in our digestive system. On a side note, If you do figure out how to make a human another way, then teleportation is only a few steps away after that. You could send the “recipe” for the human in transit to a place where they could grow a new you. The old you might be recycled for materials, but try not to think about that too much.
we can make humans. it’s actually pretty common. when a man and a woman love each other very much…
You don’t simply make a human, so to speak. The process of a human developing from a fertilised egg cell to an actual walking, shit-talking idiot is extremely complex and requires lots of different biological processes to occur in the right order, with very specific conditions and needs. I’m a medical student and I hate embryology so i won’t even bother trying to explain any of those processes, but if you want a detailed answer there are plenty of resources online that break down these processes in a way that is (sort of) understandable.
Combining all the elements and atoms that make up a human being will not create a human being – maybe you might be able to create some abomination that loosely resembles one, but I’m not sure it’s the best way to go about it (just have sex or something idk). Plus, we barely understand why biological humans are sentient, so we’d do extremely well to somehow make a bunch of raw materials sentient.
It can’t be done for the same reason we can’t bring someone back from the dead. Even with all our understanding about the body (and even that is FAR from a COMPLETE understanding, to say the very least), there’s a tricky little thing called “life” that we have no freaking clue how it works.
Humans are more than just the sum of their parts, all life is.
Yes, you can know it’s mostly water with some fats, proteins, calcium and a few other composite elements, but so is a nice stew. Knowing somethings components is different than being able to arrange them into a living structure.
Arranging it all into a useful form requires manipulating and controlling for millions of factors. Things like enamel in teeth cannot even be fully replicated now and that’s not even technically alive and pretty much a rock but requires specialized cells to arrange the magnesium and calcium in just the right way.
So if there were a way to have a unit of control that can manipulate and process millions of different things at the atomic and microscopic level, it would be possible, but at that point it’s essentially building something so complex it’s essentially science fiction.
We can’t build one ourselves. We don’t yet have the knowledge to do so. Similar to how purchasing a pile of wood, pipes and stone don’t allow a child to build a working house, the actual assembly of the components requires specialized knowledge and tools.
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