I always thought about it more in a metaphorical way.

“Alchemists are trying to produce gold (valuable materials) out of less valuable materials.”

also known as philosophy

this is why you start the sentence with “no, you may not”.

a lot of humans do that, too. cut you off early and pretend they didn’t hear the second part, stuff like that. happened to me a lot. caused me to rearrange word-order a lot.