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points by MattDamonSpace 1 day ago | 0 comments
I’ve felt the same way about mannequins for years

Uncanny Valley is an evolutionary advantage, I’ve surmised

Awkward to think about why tho

[–] dvh 23 hours ago
Interesting theory. It implies existence of non-human humanoids in our distant evolutionary past where recognizing them would give us survival advantage.
[–] lifeisstillgood 23 hours ago
There would have been plenty of those - we keep finding near ancestors, neanderthalis, the hobbit one. Some say the Monkey King from chinese legend is a folk tale of a close species