I have a tendency to see animacy in everything

🫧 Open on Bubbles Content warnings: some discussion of AI, LLMs and AI psychosis Animism is a word that describes the belief that everything is "animate," or that it has a soul or spiritual essence. "Animism" (en.wikipedia.org) In broad strokes, this is something I believe. I'm not sure exactly when it started, but probably sometime around when I first started studying Earth and environmental science. Around that time was also when I first started reading Robin Wall Kimmerer, and in particular Braiding Swee