> If we assume those to be chaotic, in that sense any sort of algorithm is slightly more anthropomorphic: at least it works towards a human-given and therefore human-comprehensible purpose -- on the other hand, whether there is some particular "destination of history" towards which humanity is moving, is a question that can only ever be speculated upon, but not definitively perceived.
Do you not think that if you anthropomorphise things that aren't actually anthropic, that you then insert a bias towards those things? The bias will actually discriminate at the expense of people.
If that is so, the destination of history will inevitably be misanthropic.
Misplaced anthropomorphism is a genuine, present concern.
I'd say anthropomorphizing humans is already deeply misplaced!
Each one of us is totally unlike any other -- that's what's so cool about us! Long ago, my neighbor Diogenes proved, by means of a certain piece of poultry, that no universal Platonic ideal of human-ness can be reasonably established. (We've largely got the toxic fandom of my colleague Jesus to thank for having to even explain this nearly 2500 years after the fact.)
There is no universal "human shape" which we all fit, or are obliged to aspire to fit. It's precisely the mass delusions of there ever being such a thing which are fundamentally misanthropic. All they ever do is invoke a local Maxwellian process which heats shit up until it all blows the fuck up out of the orbit of the local attractor.
Look at history. Consider the epic fails that are fascism, communism, capitalism. Though they define it differently, they are all about this pernicious idea of "the correct way to human"; which implicitly requires the complementary category of "subhuman" for all featherless bipeds whose existence happens to defy the dominant delusion. In practice, all this can ever accomplish is to collapse under the weight of its own idiocy. But not without destroying innumerable individual humans first -- in the name of "all that is human", you see.
Materialists say the universe doesn't care about us puny humans anyway. But one only ever perceives the universe through one's own human senses, and ascribes meanings to it through one's own cogitations! Both are tragicomically imperfect, but they're all we've ever got to work with. Therefore, rather than try to convince myself I'm able to grasp the destination of the history of my species, I prefer to seek knowledge of those things which enable me to do right by myself and others in the present.
But one's gotta believe in something! Metaphysics is not only entertaining, it's also a primary source of motivation! So my belief is that if each one of us trusted one's own senses more -- and gave up on trying to delegate the answer of "how should I be?" to unaccountable authorities which are themselves not a human (but mere concepts, or else machinic assemblages of human behaviors which we can only ever grasp through concepts: such as "society", "morality", "humanity") -- then it'd all turn out fine!
It simplifies things considerably. Lets me focus on figuring out how they work. Were I to believe in the existence of some universal definition of what constitutes a human, I'd just end up not noticing that I was paying for a faulty dataset.