Quotes About Anthropomorphism

They use the label "anthropomorphization" as a cover, because they're scared that maybe we're all just animals after all!

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I'm not sure," Callie said. "As you know, cats choose not to talk because they're afraid we'll make them pay taxes.

Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I'm cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.

Nature is not anthropomorphic.

We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good-will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us. Hence … in poetry … trees, mountains, and streams are personified, and the inanimate parts of nature acquire sentiment and passion.

Men always makes gods in their own image.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk

I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.

the market has been anthropomorphized. It is not created by us but creates us. That's what the market distates. If Jesus can talk to you, the market can talk to you.

if oxen and lions and horses had hands and could draw, they would represent their gods as oxen and lions and horses.

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.

It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.

If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

I've named everything that I've ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.

Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Projecting human qualities onto machines—like seeing a car grille as a face or talking to a smartphone AI like a person—is called anthropomorphism. But this is the opposite: we are projecting machine qualities onto humans. Seeing a human being as a machine or computer is called mechanomorphism. It's not just treating machines as living humans; it's treating humans as machines.

Anthropomorphism is such an interesting concept. It means projecting human thoughts and emotions onto an animal. Which implies that thoughts and feelings belong to humans alone. Of course, if you believe in evolution, or if you believe in the Bible, that's not so. Both evolution and the Bible tell us that we're part of a family.

The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux has shown that the same neural mechanisms mediate the fear response in all sorts of animals, from pigeons and rats to cats and humans. The idea that other animals experience similar emotions to us is not anthropomorphism: it is based on sound scientific evidence.

Don't anthropomorphize computers - they hate it.

At least descriptive psychology is probably, taken as a whole, a form of anthropomorphism, a nibbling at our own limits.