Definitely, although many features of complex organisms (humans included) can also be described as nothing more than sensing and reacting on various stimuli. It

Definitely, although many features of complex organisms (humans included) can also be described as nothing more than sensing and reacting on various stimuli. It all depends on the level of abstraction that you choose to apply, and anthropomorphizing in higher levels of abstraction intuitively helps one understand the process easier. Like calling a computer bus communication protocol "master-slave", which of course doesn't mean we should feel sorry for exploited peripheral devices :)