The carved animals

This is what the dog entry used to deny. Animals carrying human qualities were being made, kept and shown to other people tens of thousands of years before the dog: the grooming gesture is specifically human, and somebody carved it in antler on purpose. It also puts an anthropomorphised animal on the same taxonomy shelf as the dog roughly twenty-five thousand years ahead of it, which is the honest shape of the argument. The dog is not the first animal to be given human shape in the imagination. It is the first animal to be bred into living alongside us.

Application. One-sided attachment put to work on purpose. Creator economies, community, fandom as infrastructure, and the things that genuinely help people. Not automatically good - a tool with an obvious use is a tool that will also get a bad one.