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OK, seen this Tweet shared a lot lately. I get why; it implies some scary, but cool, stuff. But it's misleading by omission, and a good example of why Evolutionary psychology is regularly co-opted by those with ideological agendas.
Here's why
Yes, it's more #BrainStuff
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Here's why
Yes, it's more #BrainStuff
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I'll say up front; as far as I'm aware, nobody knows with 100% certainty why the Uncanny valley effect exists.
BUT, it doesn't automatically follow that there were shapeshifting human-resembling predators in our deep past. There are far more logical, and likely, explanations
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BUT, it doesn't automatically follow that there were shapeshifting human-resembling predators in our deep past. There are far more logical, and likely, explanations
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For instance, the uncanny valley effect may be the result of corpses.
A dead human looks just like a live one, but without all the subtle cues and animations that living humans give off constantly. Much like 'realistic' androids, animations etc.
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A dead human looks just like a live one, but without all the subtle cues and animations that living humans give off constantly. Much like 'realistic' androids, animations etc.
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The mesmerising driftwood sculptures of Japanese artist Nagato Iwasaki.
All of the figures are part of an interconnected work that Iwasaki calls simply āTorsoā and each have undergone a painstaking process of construction over the past 25 years.
āGathering bits of wood from here and there, like an insect building a nest, I create sculpturesā says the artist in one of his few interviews. Driftwood of just the right shape and size to mimic a human collarbone or the curve of a pelvis
