> And humans are made out of carbon, but you are never going to understand human emotion by studying carbon atoms really hard.

here is the problem with that line of reasoning: human emotion is difficult to define, highly subjective. it does not mean anything unless you are human and try to understand the emotions.

also, you probably need to focus more on K and Na ions and electrons if you are going down the emotional rabbit hole. Carbon is interesting, but apart from providing the skeleton for various things like dna, proteins etc i think it’s not where you’d start