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The Reproductive Psychology of Inanimate Objects

Edward Ingram thinks your television is manipulating you.

Most people don’t know the difference between living and non-living things. So we’ll start by setting most people’s minds straight.

Definitions of Life

When I was at school my biology teacher taught me a definition of life. Living things, he said, unlike non-living things, are things that eat, excrete, move, respire, grow, and reproduce. Many of my students tell me they were similarly taught when at school; so, though the details of the indices of life, as they are called, vary, biology teachers, it seems, are still telling their pupils of the indices of life.

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