The uncanny valley could mean humans at one point needed to tell between humans and non humans to survive (lemmy.nz)

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[-] DrBob@lemmy.ca 26 points 4 months ago

I think it's a pattern recognition issue. We have brain areas specialized for facial recognition. There is a cognitive dissonance where something is almost but not quite a face. This is distinct from pareidolia where the pattern system recognizes that something resembles, but is definitely not a face.

[-] winkledinkle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

This is my hypothesis. Brain doesn't know what to do with what its seeing so it just goes "yuck"

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