http://anthropology.net/2009/11/19/into-the-uncanny-valley-seed-magazine/ Beyond bones & stones Wed, 30 May 2012 15:52:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://anthropology.net/2009/11/19/into-the-uncanny-valley-seed-magazine/#comment-15469 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:25:55 +0000 http://anthropology.net/?p=2696#comment-15469 amazing picture btw you put with it, really scaringly much like a robot, i expect it has to do with identical twins tho.

]]> http://anthropology.net/2009/11/19/into-the-uncanny-valley-seed-magazine/#comment-15468 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:24:01 +0000 http://anthropology.net/?p=2696#comment-15468 i wonder if the question that you raise is: can species identify the same of similar species as uncanny because of an evolutionairy effect kicking in. it is also worth considering that humans and i think, also animals use guise, ie. excrements to mimic a prey, such a guise would make the hunter seem more (smelly) then real. or convincingly real but uncanny. it might go with less observable detail to (eg. motionlessness, body attitude, sound , backgroundnoise, scents, direction and speed of movement, etc.) to test the uncanny effect with robots it is necessary to perform tests in wich the human does not know, and is not facilitated to find out (short interactions then) they are coping with a robot/ai. otherways stereotyping and rationalisation will provide an ‘uncanny’ that may be not as much instinctive as it is a social bias.

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