Spelunking in the Uncanny Valley

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Go to http://curiositystream.com/Psych to start streaming What Is Reality. Use the promo code ‘psych’ during the sign-up process to get your first 31 days free. With all the CGI cat-humans going around on the internet these days, it’s hard to deny the sense of yikes known as the uncanny valley. But what exactly is this phenomenon, and why do we feel it when we do? Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/features/gpr-gpr0000056.pdf https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/the-uncanny-valley https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/freud1.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027715300640 http://www.macdorman.com/kfm/writings/pubs/MacDorman2006AndroidScience.pdf https://theconversation.com/uncanny-

Published 2019-08-22 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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