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In the book "Blink", it is revealed that we use a different part of the brain to conceptualize people than we do for objects.  A more complicated part of the brain.

I wonder if this has any bearing on the naming of artifacts.  And it also puts a new light on the practice of personification, which I'd viewed as a bad habit up to now.  I'd always tell people, "Don't anthropomorphize computers.  They hate that."  But maybe that's the only way you can wrap your head around the wacky things computers do to you.

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I think so, yeah. It's helpful to us to understand things in terms of intentionality, and suchlike, because we already have that ability in place and working constantly.