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Animate and Inanimate Sequence:
"controls, and found that right there that whatever was originally called physical, as the atom-- the atoms go right on combining. So it’s physical all the way; there’s absolutely no threshold.
“Man is so specialized that he didn’t notify society that he had found no threshold between animate and inanimate. This is simply to say, then, that whatever we really are, whatever life is, there is no identity of any threshold between or within the physical. And I’m saying to you very powerfully that I’m confident that our communication, everything you and I do, is absolutely weightless. The only thing that counts between you and me is thinking. The difference between human and other physical organisms is always the metaphysical, the thought.”
