It’s tempting to apply Kantian idealism as an explanation for the evident lack of morphological difference between living and non-living entities. However, if i

It’s tempting to apply Kantian idealism as an explanation for the evident lack of morphological difference between living and non-living entities. However, if it were true—if the perceived physical entity were more of a simplified apparent manifestation/map of the underlying living entity, and there were nothing special in it that was the “cause”—then presumably we would never be able to create life (or sentience, for that matter) artificially, merely by arranging physical particles in a certain pattern. Have we been able to do that, as opposed to growing more life from already living things?