This is similar to what I experienced. There seems to be a heuristic in the brain that sees a human-like object and immediately starts trying to superimpose oth

This is similar to what I experienced. There seems to be a heuristic in the brain that sees a human-like object and immediately starts trying to superimpose other human-like qualities on it. It's almost like an optical illusion where the brain totally misinterprets a visual cue, but in this case it's perhaps more like a social/empathetic/mirroring illusion.