The little prince and his guitar
Humans tend to think about some objects as if those objects convey their own viewpoint or emotions. The objects being subjectified could be anything, and they are usually found to be human-like or close to humans.
There exist non-robot subjectified objects.
Once upon a time, a little prince had a guitar that had been accompanying him for thousands of days. He talked with it, played with it, and took it to the Aegean Sea to watch the sunset together. He liked his guitar so much and gave the guitar a name, ‘Angel Papi’. When he played the guitar, he thought that he was hugging his ‘Angel Papi’, and the guitar would also feel happy. If he hadn’t played it for a long time, he would feel that his Angel Papi must be so lonely and sad. When he felt that the Angel Papi needed him, he would found it and play with it for the whole day. To him, the guitar was not only an instrument, but also a creature, or a human, having all these emotions and needs just as himself.
- Καλημέρα, Άγγελος Πάπι. Ο καιρός είναι τόσο καλός σήμερα!
(Good morning, Angel Papi. The weather is so good today!)
- Κοιμήθηκες καλά?
(Did you sleep well?)
- : )
However, there are objects that the little prince would never 'subjectify'. For example, the industrial robots.
Although they might be useful for modern industries, they are usually not subjectified by humans. First, most of them don't seem very human-like, which makes it difficult to imagine them conveying human attitudes. Take the mining robots as an example. As shown below (the right picture), the mining robots don't look like humans or animals, but like some machines that are not living at all. Second, they are also not very close to humans' daily lives. Those robots are frequently seen in factories, but not in most people's homes or offices. Humans don't frequently have a deep relation with them.
