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Is making such deductions not a sub-form of anthropomorphism, though? (To whatever extent humans 200k years ago were different than us, I suppose.) > Modern ps
by bowmessage 6y ago
Is making such deductions not a sub-form of anthropomorphism, though? (To whatever extent humans 200k years ago were different than us, I suppose.)
> Modern psychologists generally characterize anthropomorphism as a cognitive bias. That is, anthropomorphism is a cognitive process by which people use their schemas about other humans as a basis for inferring the properties of non-human entities in order to make efficient judgements about the environment, even if those inferences are not always accurate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism
- qubex 6y agoExcept I’m making considerations about fellow humans, not non-human entities. Anthropomorphism doesn’t apply here (unless you subscribe to Jaynes’ surprisingly compelling hypothesis set forth in The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind which is controversial, fringe, supported by strangely compelling but also very circumstantial evidence, and hard to justify neurologically, that is). I suppose I could be accused of a bunch of other fallacies, and those would be fair game.