So we've got a possible explanation of the difference between an animated and an unanimated or an inanimate body to it.

于是我们得到了对,生命体与非生命体之间区别的一种可能的解释

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Even what we think in our vulgar ways to be inanimate objects - even they seem to have within them something like a potency, a potency of life or an infusion of divine spirit.

即使是那些我们以通俗的眼光看来没有生命的物体,-即使是它们也有一种潜质，一种生命的潜质，似乎被注入了神灵。

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Ollie, a bunny who refuses to collaborate, creates a rival team called the Thunder Pets, consisting of himself and two inanimate objects: a rock and a toy frog.

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Many appear to perceive faces as if they were inanimate objects - using a completely different part of the brain.

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Participants either saw live footage of themselves, a mannequin or an inanimate black block.

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