The Uncanny Valley

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Does this creep you out? I KNOW, RIGHT? The folks over at Pixeloo untooned Mario a couple months back (along with a couple other cartoon favorites). Do you know why it freaks us out? It’s because of a theory called The Uncanny Valley, an idea that supposes that when an entity (like video game Mario) appears sufficiently non-human, than its human-like qualities stand out and create a sense of sympathy in us human types. When a non-human entity appears “almost” human, we notice the nonhuman characteristics more and the result is revulsion. Think of The Uncanny Valley as a place where Nicole Kidman owns a summer home. Got it? If not, check out the following clip from 30 Rock in which Tracy Morgan wants to make a porno video game—I often find that Tracy Morgan helps my knowledge absorption by a good 14%. Isn’t that fascinating? Apparently, this mechanism might be biologically ingrained in us so that we inherently fear corpses. Or, y’know, zombies (seriously!).
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