dogs

You know how we love dogs because they seem "human"? Their "human-ness" seems to have evolved in order to make them appealing to humans. Perhaps the illusion of free will (in OTHERS) evolved in humans as a way to be attractive in the battle for sexual selection. (I am aware there may be a chicken and egg problem here...but maybe not!). Humans who seemed to freely choose seemed more dynamic, attractive. Humans who acted like robots, not so much. This trait is now laughed at (in fact the definition of the kind of thing that makes us laugh and of the nature of jokes). Next step: narcissism. He/she seems attractive because he/she FREELY chose me. Much more flattering than he/she chose me because he/she instinctively like my smell...