I’m starting to call the failure to acknowledge the problem of human credulity the “Wilson Problem” after the beautiful story of Tom Hanks in “Castaway” and his relationship with a soccer ball (mockingly retold in an episode of Family Guy in a way that is exactly what to expect from that show and I laughed entirely too much at it). Regardless of the version of the story, I use it often as an example of the human tendency to ascribe sentience and agency to things that even on their surface clearly lack both, but our need to tell stories gets in the way of seeing anything clearly. No, the world isn’t like us, we are like the world, and seeing consciousness within mimicry is probably the height of irony coming from Dawkins, the well-known atheist.