Sentence examples for animate entities from inspiring English sources

Teleological thinking is undoubtedly commonplace in biology because we intuitively expect living things (and other apparently animate entities, like storms) to act the way we would, with intentions and desires (Mead and Scott 2010a, b).

The first is straightforward: psychology considers all animate entities, and the nutritive soul belongs to all naturally living things, since it is "the first and most common capacity of soul, in virtue of which life belongs to all living things" (De Anima ii 4, 415a24 25).

Animate entities are endowed with internal energy sources which allow self-propelled motion [17], [18].

The study of MOT is often motivated by the ecological validity of the task, highlighting the challenges of tracking animate entities moving in complex, crowded scenes along with distracters (e.g., "Imagine a primitive hunting party on the savannah stalking four weak gazelle amongst a larger herd" [32]).

If one thinks of a football player mindful of the location of their teammates, or a mother trying to keep track of her children at the winter sales at Selfridges, it is evident that the tracking of other animate entities is both commonplace and important.

As such, death collocates with material transformative processes for a metaphorical construal of death as a concrete, animate entity, as in (12).

A number of these regions with reduced FA play a role in social responsiveness, and our study is the first to show that unusual differences in white matter microstructure in these regions is associated with compelling feelings of social cohesion and personality towards non-animate entities.

In general, mentalizing requires the ability to differentiate animate and inanimate entities [6], to share attention by following the gaze of another agent [7], to represent goal-directed actions [8] and to distinguish between actions of the self and of others [9], [10].

For instance, both animate and inanimate entities can have wairua.

By this account, we observed more inferior middle temporal activity, in addition to the superior temporal activity, because we compared animate to inanimate entities (e.g., people vs. buildings and hammers).

Alternatively, it could be that the anterior temporal lobes are relatively more responsive to animate than inanimate entities, with the superior temporal gyrus being particularly responsive for human-animate attributes (such as the social abstract concepts used by Zahn et al).