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I claim we anthropomorphize because guessing that the world is humanlike is a good bet. It is a bet because the world is uncertain , ambiguous, and in need of interpretation. It is a good bet because the most valuable interpretation usually are those that disclose the presence of the whatever is mot important to us. That usually is other humans. ~ Page 3 (intro) There are two standard explanations of anthropomorphism: that it comforts us and that it consists in using our good knowledge of ourselves to account for what we know less well. Although each explanation has some truth, neither is sufficient. Comfort does not explain anthropomorphism well because much anthropomorphism is uncomfortable. Reliance on self-knowledge does not explain it well either, because our knowledge of ourselves is no more reliable than knowledge of what is not ourselves. - Page 6 Anthropomorphism in Philosophy and Science, shows that anthropomorphism occurs even among philosophers and scientists, although they are its most consistent critics. Scientists in particular try to avoid it, but they must make a constant effort. Its cause here appears the same as elsewhere: we strive to understand our world by pursuing important possibilities, and humanlike forms and behaviors are the most important ones we know. ~ Page 7

Image and Excerpt from the Book : "Faces in the Clouds" ~ Author Stewart Guthrie

The hermit flees company not because company is irrelevant but because it is all too relevant. Moreover he typically sees in his solitary environment some transformation of the humanity he left. In religious hermitage, this transformation is God. The anthropocentrism that Nietzsche saw everywhere does not evaporate when we leave other people physically. //The Duke in ‘As you Like it’ says of his forest exile, “this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” People find heads, faces, and other parts of the body in landforms and social groupings in collection of artifacts. ~ Page 83