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The Uncanny Valley Explained

Posted by Soulskill on from the japan's-plan-for-scaring-the-rest-of-us-to-death dept.

ColdWetDog writes "Scientists now believe they've figured out what causes the uncanny valley response. They compared functional MRI scans of volunteers watching two different types of videos: those showing human-appearing androids, and those showing the humans that the robots were created to mimic. 'The results suggest that the uneasiness we feel could be caused by a "perceptual mismatch between appearance and motion."' Basically, the brain seemed to react in a strongly negative manner when the robotic motions of the android didn't match its human-like appearance."

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  1. Re:Sad news ... Amy's death proves stupidity. by OldHawk777 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    For the clowns that slam Amy, you are idiots. Your stupidity is perhaps due to social-inbreeding to refining specific genetic traits with looks and body-type the priority. Your ancestors take intelligence for granted, and still do not accept that inbreeding in humans breeds eloquent imbeciles with piss-poor moral fiber. Hence, many of you are gods-fearing mythology/religion freaks seeking, speaking, projecting your personal bad/evil on others for your faux-feelgood id-trips.

    Why not do drugs, sex, and music for recreation and an escape from the insipidness of the ruling/privileged pseudo-humans.

    Insults are fun, when you can do them well, don't you agree.

    Amy was an okay person in a sad world.

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    Unaccountable leaders are masters, and unrepresented people are slaves. How do US and EU fare?