Those inanimate objects that I'm placing human emotions and conditions on to still require that I have at least a basic philosophical perception of other humans having internally consistent consciousnesses.

Without that, I wouldn't be ale to make the leap towards putting human conditions onto an object that is even further removed from my own perception than another human would be.

Turning the wind into a god, just means that I'm considering the motivations and emotions of an immensely powerful human that just doesn't happen to have the form of a human (not counting avatars). There is no way for me to have an inanimate object act with agency without having to first filter that through human perception and agency.


"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..." -The Bard