There is a weird, yet apparently natural, tendency of humans to anthropomorphize anything. That is the biggest implication of the likeness fallacy. An even more common instantiation is that we think other individuals are like us. A fallacy is by definition faulty reasoning. In this case, the image we have of ourselves gets projected onto other organisms and even non-physical things. A famous example for that is the anthropomorphizing of God/Allah/YHWH (From hereon out abbreviated as Gay, see:
The Likeness Fallacy
The Likeness Fallacy
The Likeness Fallacy
There is a weird, yet apparently natural, tendency of humans to anthropomorphize anything. That is the biggest implication of the likeness fallacy. An even more common instantiation is that we think other individuals are like us. A fallacy is by definition faulty reasoning. In this case, the image we have of ourselves gets projected onto other organisms and even non-physical things. A famous example for that is the anthropomorphizing of God/Allah/YHWH (From hereon out abbreviated as Gay, see: