Is it when the electrical synapses in my brain stop firing? Because the cells and bacteria and fungi and viruses that form my body will still be alive a while after that
Is it when my tissues break down? When the descendants of the bacteria in my gut have dispersed a certain distance away into the soil?
Are my bones still me? And if bones are enough to bring me back and walk me around the living, is my hair? My blood? My tears?
When does it stop? If my calcium can be risen, what about my carbon? And how far back?
If I ate meat from a cow, and the proteins in that meat became part of my hand, could I cut off a finger and animate it with the cow's soul, or does the act of bring consumed destroy it?
A fossilized skeleton isn't a skeleton, it's the rock and mineral that replaced the skeleton as it took over the place the skeleton used to be, but are there no traces left behind? No flecks of raw materials mixed in that were once a living creature?
If I pick up a handful of topsoil, most of what I'm holding will have come from living organisms that have died. Plants, animals, fungi, bacteria. Can you revive dirt? And if you can't, why?
When is an alive thing no longer even partially living, and when 8s a dead thing no longer dead?
What's the line between something that is dead, and a pile of raw materials?
What is the dividing point between a pile of meat and a pile of dirt
Everything I'm made of right now used to be a star, or molecules that became a plant that was eaten by a rat that was eaten by a dinosaur that died in a river that a mammoth drank from before it died and became grass that a mountain goat ate before it's descendant became a sheep whose manure was used to grow a tree that I ate an apple from a week ago, and now the nutrients in that are in my flungs or something
Is part of me that mammoth? That rat? That Plant?
If a single molecule in my body was once inside of a dodo bird, is that enough to animate a dodo bird?
What if it is, and you can just control one molecule?
Could you necromance all the souls of every animal someone ate in the last month, could you control the parts of their body that were generated by those nutrients? And again, does that limit max out after the proteins are digested? And at which point?
Is the shape of my body and the space it occupied any more mine than any random fleck of dander or loose fragment of bone?
Is the imprint if my body "me"? And if not, what else makes the things inside me into myself and not something it used to be?
What is the threshold for things that denote control over death? Is everything dead, or nothing? What does something stop being itself and start being something else.
Do I eveb hold possession over myself?
I have been awake for 22 hours and I don't remember why I was thinking about any of this
