> Followers of Shinto, unlike Judeo-Christian monotheists and the Greeks before them, do not believe that humans are particularly “special.” Instead, there are

> Followers of Shinto, unlike Judeo-Christian monotheists and the Greeks before them, do not believe that humans are particularly “special.” Instead, there are spirits in everything, rather like the Force in Star Wars. Nature doesn’t belong to us, we belong to Nature, and spirits live in everything, including rocks, tools, homes, and even empty spaces. To me this looks like the most important paragraph. The west (and I believe also China, India, Russia, and arab countries) do lack a vision of different being coexisting. Eventually we (and based on some popular light novel for boys, also china) have a vision of a Natural World in balance and Humans acting (either positively or negatively) on this balance. This does not mean that we would hate robots or even aliens, just that we would (at a superficial level) need to shoehorn them into being either humans or not.