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When does a Rock or a Teddy Bear Become Alive?
Science has shown how rocks can be the precursor to life, containing the building blocks of life, and it's generally thought that the substance and elements of rock, given the right conditions, can evolve into life. Various world cultures have formulated a variety of similar views, often involving a connection of spirit. In one explanation, a Teddy Bear becomes alive when a human impels it with a spiritual attachment. If spirit can induce inanimate objects to life, how can the life form status be applied to the science of space travel? We begin by the examination of cultural meanings.
Photo: Easter Island Moai Statues Source
"Perhaps the most well-known face statues are the moai, which the native Rapa Nui people strategically scattered around their island off the coast of Chile sometime between 1250 and 1500 AD. It's largely a mystery how such an isolated tribe built and transported hundreds of giant, human-like figures - the heaviest weighs 82 tons."
Space1 is creating various life forms from fields of science - nanotechnology, robotics, androids, virtual and augmented reality, machine intelligence, and automatons. Can the life of a new inanimate object come into the picture?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism
http://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=43569
https://www.warpaths2peacepipes.com/native-american-culture/animism.htm
"Animism (from Latin anima, "breath, spirit, life") is the religious belief that objects, places and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Potentially, animism perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork and perhaps even words—as animated and alive. Animism is the world's oldest religion, "Animism predates any form of organized religion and is said to contain the oldest spiritual and supernatural perspective in the world. It dates back to the Paleolithic Age, to a time when ... humans roamed the plains hunting and gathering, and communing with the Spirit of Nature."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukumogami
https://www.christianforums.com/threads/can-inanimate-objects-have-spiritual-influence.1170144/
"Tsukumogami (付喪神 or つくも神, lit. "tool kami") are tools in Japanese folklore that have acquired a spirit. According to an annotated version of The Tales of Ise titled Ise Monogatari Shō, a certain theory in the Onmyōki, tsukumogami are what foxes that have lived for one hundred years turn into. In modern times, they can also be written 九十九神 (ninety-nine kami). Today, the term is generally understood to be applied to virtually any object, “that has reached its 100th birthday and thus become alive and self-aware,” though this definition is not without controversy."
http://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/1998/2/98.02.02.x.html
Native American Indians did not necessarily distinguish between the animate and inanimate. Everything embodied life and was considered to be in a conscious state of being. The plants, animals, herbs and all non-living parts of their ecosystem were in essence a human life form. Every object that sprang from their creativity was in effect in possession of life. Every sound and movement made by an inanimate object was synonymous with those that are demonstrated by a human being. The Indian felt that everything in existence co-existed and was owned by no one.
https://neverimitate.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/10-common-misconceptions-about-teddy-bears/
Native American Bear Symbolic Meanings. Among Native Americans Bear represents extremely strong medicine including the special powers in the areas of wisdom, strength and healing. ... Native lore often speaks of Bear as a disciplinary Animal Spirit that meets out judgment on bad mannered humans.
https://whatismyspiritanimal.com/spirit-totem-power-animal-meanings/mammals/bear-symbolism-meaning/
