Inanimateness

[Violet]

Everything is made of atoms.

From the chair I am sitting on, to the table to...me.

Trees are animate, visually differently than animals and humans, they move growing.

What if we keep on decreasing the degrees of (visible) animateness, when then can we say that anything - and everything is atoms (are atoms animate?) - is inanimate.

[poetbil]

Violet please don't scare people that chairs are animatable:angry:

[Violet]

Turning it around is also possible.

Increasing levels of animateness. And how, by which procedure? What's the starting point, and what does death mean in the light of that?