anthropomorphic

Call it a "warden", or at best "coach", if you really need an anthropomorphic comparison.

I think you've fallen victim to an anthropomorphic fallacy here.

Perhaps in the form of a thought balloon emitted from an anthropomorphic paperclip.

It's not a human convention either - it's an anthropomorphic metaphor.

The problem is that there are very few people with "reasonable, scientific grounds for being skeptical of anthropomorphic climate change".

I think this is primarily due to anthropomorphic factors, plus habituation.

It is to fight the "if-this-guy-wants-to-talk-to-that-guy" syndrome: never refer to parts of programs or pieces of equipment in an anthropomorphic terminology, nor allow your students to do so. ..I have now encountered programs wanting things, knowing things, expecting things, believing things, etc., and each time that gave rise to avoidable confusions.

A thought experiment: Imagine a pre-singularity world with near-intelligent anthropomorphic robots which can do most manual tasks - including resource mining, food production and building more of themselves.

Can't he mentally translate "a neuron shouts when it sees a pattern" into "a neuron fires when a certain combination of it's input terminals are excited" or perhaps instead of "fire" which is potentially anthropomorphic itself, Kurzweil should write a script to replace "fire" with "the voltage-gated ion channels embedded in the plasma membrane will open allowing an inward flow of sodium ions, etc.