How could an inanimate object come to life?

Answer 1

This world is a constant transformation. When everything outside in front of us comes to a complete halt something inside us starts to move. The effect of still photographs, for example, upon imagination can be far deeper and lasting than any moving image. The fact is that nothing in the world is at standstill; things keep changing all the time. The things that we observe do not leave their place or position are actually in a state of constant change. There movement is not just at atomic or molecular level inside them, but most importantly it is with us in our mind. Our mind captures the momentary impressions of things and then it starts to develop them into shapes and form of its own, giving them its own functions. For example, if I capture an image and close my eyes upon it, I realise that more I concentrate the weirder the image would get, both in form and function.

The ability to animate is in fact a capacity in human mind that we endow upon things that we like, or things that we feel attachment to. The creation of universal characters like Superman, Mackie Mouse along side thousands of popular characters that populate our TV screens are expressions of our collective consciousness. The legendary heroes, monsters and kings and queens are all portrayal of what we gather in our imagination. This is an ongoing process in which human imagination knows not limits.

Answer 2

It depends on what you consider to be animate. Take for instance, your own body. Right now I would say you are animate. In that you can feel, think, move, and are obviosely capable of abstract thought. When you die however, your body will become an inaminate object. When you were in your mothers womb, were you concieved an aminate object, or were you inanimate? If you were inanimate, at what point did you become animate? It all depends upon what you consider to be an animate object. An object that can BE moved or an object that CAN move completely free of outside influence. Or does it go deeper than physical movement? You decide. :-)

Answer 3

Does a dormant virus count as an inanimate object? It comes to 'life' - although it does not fulfill all the criteria of a living thing - when it has contact with a host, but before that, it could lie dormant for many years.

Answer 4

You need a particle accelerator, an elastic band, and a nice hot cup of tea.

Or is that how you achieve immortality?

Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) had the answer anyway. Pity he's dead. We could have asked him.

Answer 5

If something living consumes the object and integrates it into its own body, then you can say that the object became a part of something living.

Of course, there's always magic, too.

Answer 6

Teddies or dolls - ick, no longer perfect. i'm sh1t-frightened of robots because it really is, so those too. And that huge furnace element contained in the basement in abode on my own that starts leaping and growling by its grille... *shudder*

Answer 7

I haven't seen that happen. You're not referring to new borns are you, their lives came from the chance meeting of one spermatoza and one of a million eggs.

Answer 8

An egg could hatch into a bird.

Answer 9

a acorn grows into a tree.it is the same quistion how did life start in the begaining i believe in the big bang ,GOD SAID IT AND BANG THERE WAS LIFE

Answer 10

Haven't you seen Toy Story?????