Well, yes and no. We say things like "the star wants to go nova" when we mean "stars at this stage in their development tend to go nova" - but the star doesn't want, any more than it dreams or fears to go nova. Anthropomorphizing might help us generalize about things made by people (who do want, dream and fear) though I don't think that's always the case, but I would say it isn't always useful for non-human (and especially non-living) systems.