Sometimes human beings anthropomorphize Nature. What did Nature have in mind? Or, how did Nature arrange that? Or, what trick does Nature have up her sleeve? As if Nature were animated by a vast emergent intellect that defies attempts at understanding the natural world. Have you ever felt in a contest with Nature, pitting your capacity to marshal Reason against frequently inscrutable Nature? There are likely many instances when the inquiring reasoning mind succeeds and there is the exhilaration of discovery or insight. Aren’t such contests of Reason versus hidden Nature high drama? Are there examples? Do you ever feel you are jousting with Nature?
Human beings with various phylogenetic characteristics occupy the universe ,and from their earliest stages of cognitive development, they have a tendency to project human attributes onto non-human domains.
Anthropomorphism has been of great interest in most social spheres because it turns nonhuman agents into moral agents deserved to be treated with respect .Whether anthropomorphism represents accurate or fallacious thinking , sociologists contend that, Anthropomorphized agents play a pivotal role in man's life especially when social interaction is lacking. As an illustration, environmentalists may consider pollution as an evil agent harming the Mother Earth.The psychological determinants that influence the projection of human-like traits to non human agents is an important part of all cultures and forms one of the parameters in investigating cultural differences.
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