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Just had a good, long conversation with Hugh on LJ about recent misunderstandings and Erin and Meredith. I went through to Erin and said

Me: "If you've got 10 minutes there's a really long conversation with Hugh I just had."

Erin: "Am I in trouble then?"

Andy:"No. He's replied to your LJ post though."

Erin: "Did he tell me to fuck off?"

Andy: "Yup"

Erin: "Cool"

Aah, happy days.

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Anthropomorphism is a very common trait amongst people - I think it's a heuristic for understanding the reason for things. If you assign a motive to all objects and acts then it makes it easier to think like it and predict it's next move.

In my experience, women tend to do it more, which may come from the higher social tendencies and aptitudes they have, but that's just handwaving on my behalf. Certainly more women I know than men have named their cars, computers, etc.

If you take this and our tendency towards heirarchy - for power to flow from a centralised point and for people to 'outrank' each other, I think that's where God comes from. He's the anthropomorphism of the universe itself, and the inevitable result of heirarchy taken to its logical extreme.