I also think it's bunk, but I think the alive-inanimate-objects thing is really just a symptom. It's not his idea - rather Spinoza's, and in Spinoza's hands, is

I also think it's bunk, but I think the alive-inanimate-objects thing is really just a symptom. It's not his idea - rather Spinoza's, and in Spinoza's hands, is fairly sensible. Lautour's work is a lot of stuff like that - fairly commonplace* philosophy ideas, said in the most controversial way possible, rebranded as his own. *Commonplace philosophy ideas occupy a similar kind of remove to common-sense realism as set theory, so they tend to be the sort of things that sound kinda crazy until you dig in.