Why do humans have a cute lil obsession with giving things names?

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For an example- art, plants, stuffed animals, and other inanimate objects. I was thinking about this earlier and am curious to know why!

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Humans have an overweening pack-bonding instinct. We project aspects of ourselves onto all sorts of things, even things that aren’t even *alive* or even *motile.* By self-ifying entities in the world around us, we bind ourselves to them, make them familiar, comfortable, cognizable.

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