
Episode 235: Animated Objects
Very Bad Wizards
Animacy Is a Condition of Being Alive to the World
i also looked at a paper, but we looked very different ind papers. He says ac according to a long established convention, animism is a system of belief that imputes life or spirit to things that are truly inert. But this convention, as i shall show, is misleading on two counts. First, we are dealing here not with a way of believing about the world, but with the condition of being in it. This could be described as a condition of being alive to the world characterized by a heightened sensitivity and responsiveness in perception and action to an environment that is always in flux,. Never the same from one one moment to the next. Does that clear things up for you, as gon
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