Have you ever wondered
why certain innocent cartoons and various robots put humans on edge? The cause
of this phenomena is the concept of the uncanny valley. The idea is that the
closer something gets to a human likeness the more we find it cute or
attractive, until a certain point in which it becomes creepy.
The image shows two
lines, one for moving and one for still. This is because a fair amount of the
discomfort we feel comes from the idea that the near human entity possesses a
mind and is able to interact with the world around it. Here are some popular
examples of beings that fall in the uncanny valley.
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Cited
Lay,
Stephanie. "Uncanny Valley: Why We Find Human-like Robots and Dolls so
Creepy | Stephanie Lay." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 13 Nov.
2015. Web. 20 Nov. 2016.
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/13/robots-human-uncanny-valley>.
This was something very interesting to think about, I always assumed it was maybe due to the realness and with reality and something being closer to human reality it can be corrupted and evil much like people can. Thus further threatening our ways of life with unpredictability. -Catana Brooks
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