In the Platonic school of philosophy, the Demiurge is a deity who fashions the physical world in the light of eternal ideas. In the Timaeus, Plato credits the Demiurge with taking preexisting materials of chaos and arranging them in accordance with the models of eternal forms.
Oatmeal does not turn into starch, because it is already mostly starch. In a serving of 1/2 cup of dry old-fashioned oats, 22 g of the 27 g of total carbohydrates are starches. Starches correspond to a chain of glucose, or sugar, linked together.
RSQueen responded: Uncooked oats actually contain a lot of resistant starch - 17.6 grams in 1 cup. The starch resists digestion because it is protected by the physical barrier in the intact oat. When you cook it, that barrier is broken down and the resistant starch is almost completely lost.