Why Evolution Gave Us The "Uncanny Valley" Fear? | History For Sleep

Описание: Why Evolution Gave Us The "Uncanny Valley" Fear? | History For Sleep

Why do almost-human faces trigger instant revulsion? That uncomfortable recoil when you see a lifelike robot with eyes that don't quite track right isn't learned—babies and monkeys have it too. This episode of Sleepy Secrets of History explores the uncanny valley phenomenon discovered by Masahiro Mori in 1970, the evolutionary psychology behind why this response goes back millions of years, and the dark theory that it evolved to help us detect other human species who looked almost like us but weren't.

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TIMESTAMPS & TOPICS:
0:00 Introduction: The Fear of Almost-Human Faces
19:00 What Is the Uncanny Valley? The Science Behind the Response
38:00 Babies and Monkeys: Why This Fear Isn't Learned
57:00 The Disease Detection Theory: Why It Doesn't Fully Work
1:16:00 The Dark Answer: Other Humans Who Weren't Us
1:35:00 Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo Floresiensis: Our Lost Cousins
1:54:00 What Happened When We Met Them?
2:13:00 The Uncanny Valley in Modern Life: Robots, CGI, and Deepfakes
2:32:00 Why We Can't Cross the Valley: The Line Between Real and Almost-Real
2:51:00 Conclusion: The Mystery That Makes Us Human

DIVE DEEPER:

The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud (1919) — The original essay on the unsettling familiar
The Uncanny Valley in Games and Animation by Angela Tinwell (2014) — Why digital faces creep us out
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes (2020) — Meeting our almost-human cousins
Lone Survivors by Chris Stringer (2012) — When multiple human species walked the Earth

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