ABSTRACT
While artifacts, things designed and made by human beings, owe their existence entirely to their creators, most of us, most of the time, think of them as having very little to do with us beyond functional utility. There seems to be a clear, if invisible, line through reality whereby humans regard most of the works of their own hands as being dead and completely alien from the animated human world—even though that world is populated and significantly shaped by those very same objects.
