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Yes, to a reasonable approximation that is indeed what happened.
You then tried to say that is not an adequate explanation because we will want to ascribe some moral meaning to what you did and to readers' responses, and to do that we need to have some additional element, something 'more than just molecules'.
The obvious question is why? We can account for morality and for moral meaning on the basis that we are social animals. We feel anger because we have evolved to do so in certain situations. We ascribe moral meaning to certain actions because that enables our social constructs to operate more effectively. There is no need to add in some immaterial substance to explain them.
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