The capacity to see oneself as another organism might (and also the belief that one can enter the mind of other non-human organisms) . This was useful both to play the Machiavellian chess-games in the social world, but also to make a good hunter…since it allows one to predict an animals movements and responses (including anthropomorphizing and personification). But this also allows us to impose minds and purposiveness into inanimate objects (”Damn Car!”) or into nature or the power behind nature [the "deity"].

But other organisms constantly surprise us – ants raise aphids like we do cattle, and harvest fungus like plants. Apes make tools, mentally map their environments returning to fruit trees as they go into fruit years down the road. Japanese macaques passing on inventive ways of manipulating food from one generation to the next.