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Not Minds, but Signs: Reframing LLMs through Semiotics - arXiv arxiv.org Jul 1, 2025 3 facts
claimThe semiotic perspective on Large Language Models avoids anthropomorphism by challenging the impulse to attribute intentions, consciousness, or understanding to models that are probabilistic systems trained on large text corpora.
referenceSalles, Evers, and Farisco published 'Anthropomorphism in ai' in the journal AJOB Neuroscience in 2020.
referenceIbrahim and Cheng's 2025 paper 'Thinking beyond the anthropomorphic paradigm benefits llm research' argues for moving away from anthropomorphism in large language model research.
AI Sessions #9: The Case Against AI Consciousness (with Anil Seth) conspicuouscognition.com Feb 17, 2026 2 facts
claimHenry Shevlin identifies the danger of anthropomorphism and anthropocentrism as a major ethical issue in AI, noting that humans may develop highly dependent relationships with social AI, leading to phenomena like AI psychosis.
claimAnil Seth identifies anthropomorphism as a bias where humans project human-like qualities onto other things based on superficial similarities, such as projecting emotions onto objects with facial expressions.
The cross-cultural study of mind and behaviour: a word of caution link.springer.com Apr 8, 2022 2 facts
quoteOjalehto et al. (2020: 19) state: 'The essential difference between Ngöbe and US stances on agency lies in their conceptual prototypes (using humans rather than ecological actors as the reference point for agency) and grounding principles (psychology or communication) rather than a difference in anthropomorphism, counterintuitive-ness, scientific compatibility, or supernaturalism.'
perspectiveOne could argue that both anthropomorphism and ecocentrism are equally fallacious ways of attributing agency.
The Evolution of Transcendence | Evolutionary Psychological Science link.springer.com Jun 1, 2016 1 fact
claimThe human propensity to anthropomorphize, or attribute emotions and thoughts to non-human entities like dogs, cats, clouds, and gods, may stem from the easily activated theory of mind (ToM) mechanism.
Neuro-insights: a systematic review of neuromarketing perspectives ... frontiersin.org 1 fact
referenceRecent neuromarketing research includes studies by Tan and Lee (2024) using fMRI and questionnaires; Ülker et al. (2025) using GSR, PPG, and questionnaires; Xu and Liu (2024) using EEG; Zhang et al. (2024) using fMRI and questionnaires to study consumer wellbeing; Adalarasu et al. (2025) using EEG and questionnaires to study emotional intelligence; Khubchandani and Raman (2025) using eye-tracking (ET) and questionnaires to study SOR Theory; Lopez-Navarro et al. (2025) using EEG, EDA, and questionnaires to study perception; Marques et al. (2025) using EDA and FEA to study the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM); Šola et al. (2025) using eye-tracking (ET) to study the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM); and Yu et al. (2025) using fNIRS to study anthropomorphism and pro-social behavior.
The influence of advertising on compulsive buying ouci.dntb.gov.ua 1 fact
claimYixin Gu, Ziwei Guo, and Junyi Hao found that four characteristics of AI-generated virtual streamers—perceived authenticity, anthropomorphism, social presence, and interactivity—significantly influence consumer patronage intentions in live-streaming commerce.
A Comprehensive Benchmark and Evaluation Framework for Multi ... arxiv.org Jan 6, 2026 1 fact
measurementThe 'Guidance Injection Loop' configuration for patient agents achieves a hallucination score of 0.049, a relevance score of 0.992, and perfect scores of 1.000 across all Anthropomorphism dimensions (Linguistics, Cognition, and Behavior).