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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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

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[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 2 months ago

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