Wednesday, October 14, 2009

uncanny valley

fishing bait underwater in a blue clear water <br /> photo

Robots appear to elicit more empathy as they become more human looking up to a point. At this point the look like corpses and repulse the viewer. This phenomena is known as the uncanny valley. Well, now science finds that monkey are also disgusted by replicas of themselves. This is an uncanny monkey. Lower animals seem to not have this problem, witness fish lures and decoy ducks.

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