Rather, it asserted that cellphones are analogous to other mundane inanimate objects, like cigarette boxes and clothes.
As human beings, we have a primal instinct to instantaneously profile people, the weather, inanimate objects, and situations.
Infants can distinguish a human face from inanimate objects or even animal faces.
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Some inanimate objects have quotes or stories printed next to them, reminding the viewer of the awesome and mystical power of nature.
Many appear to perceive faces as if they were inanimate objects - using a completely different part of the brain.
"Some people choose to take out their aggression on inanimate objects in this case, their monitor, keyboard or mouse, " he said.
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.
That also has some humor attached to it, but it also revealed that some judgments were being made about me by inanimate objects who were changing my online experience.
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They are already the brain food of the smartphone, and now they allowing an increasing array of previously inanimate objects to understand your place, motion, touch, gestures and activity.
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It's no wonder the public rallied to support a colorful robber who fired his pistol only a handful of times, and never at anything but inanimate objects or the air.
This becomes very, very important as sensors start being placed into more and more inanimate objects, such as lamps, sprinklers, running shoes, thermostats, toll booths, vending machines, shark-detecting buoys and just about everything else.
Plus, can you imagine how difficult it's going to be walking across a busy street, dealing with people not just engrossed in their cell phones, but literally looking ahead and focused on inanimate objects?
Also keep in mind, this is mainly an airborne thing or something that lives on inanimate objects, so people touch the virus, then they touch their mouth, they touch their nose, they touch their eyes.
In all these films, viewers will find evidence of Mr. Kaminski's commitment to his core principles elegant manipulation of the camera to reveal character and the play of light and shadow on both animate and inanimate objects.
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And after much talk of "wormholes" and "parallel universes, " came a conclusion: "We are still very far away from being able to entangle and teleport human beings and bulk inanimate objects, " reads page 46 of the report (PDF file).
Allen McConnell, a psychology professor at Miami University in Ohio who studies pet owners' behavior, said those who opt for animal preservation can be motivated by grief, a need for belonging and anthropomorphism the act of ascribing human attributes to animals or even inanimate objects.
Instead, there was increased activity in the next-door part of the brain that deals with inanimate, or non-face objects.
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