Every Fear Begins in the Uncanny Valley

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Ambiguity is what makes things both interesting and terrifying. But why? Maybe the uncanny valley can tell us. Video heavily inspired by the legends Ro-Meister and the Why Files: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEpr_sXqzp4&ab_channel=Ro-Meister https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF8gc1jBiFM&ab_channel=TheWhyFiles Best Clip on the entire internet (Chad Anakin) Janobot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS_HPF2-eBU&ab_channel=Janobot Music: The Backrooms - Myuu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP_A1UueLWM&ab_channel=Myuu Dino Piranha - Super Mario Galaxy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQSIUvTnwzA&ab_channel=OfficialVGM%3AArchive 'Backrooms' - Konor Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIF6YahRfj8&ab_channel=K0N0RMusic Hawaiian Skies - CYBEREALITYライフ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja0FFWSOo08&ab_channel=CYBEREALITY%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%95-Topic Fallen Down - Undertale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH5hM1ILuFQ&list=RDqH5hM1ILuFQ&start_radio=1&ab_channel=TobyFox-Topic War - Low Rider (instrumental) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO-hSacrKEI&ab_channel=NickOXIDMusic Scent of Night - Myuu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma3BFoEwjPI&ab_channel=Myuu Bowser's Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJj6GGLaIfI&list=RDAJj6GGLaIfI&start_radio=1&ab_channel=SledgeBro64 Ecco the Dolphin - Ice Zone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u168ctYQqrA&list=PLmAjrkj1KHpLkTpocnFneFYYT7B5ssgVm&index=7&ab_channel=Doomsday17died Research Angela Tinwell Mismatch Hypothesis https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45456813_Uncanny_behaviour_in_survival_horror_games https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261214126_Children's_Perception_of_Uncanny_Human-Like_Virtual_Characters Cannibalism in early humans? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/our-human-relatives-butchered-and-ate-each-other-145-million-years-ago-180982425/#:~:text=A%20recent%20discovery%20in%20a%20Kenyan%20museum%E2%80%94previously%20unnoticed,human%20relatives%20butchering%20and%20presumably%20eating%20each%20other. Neanderthal puncture wound https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19615713/ Neanderthals moved differently https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425000193 Neanderthal and Human Sexy times https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08420-x Is the uncanny valley universal https://essay.utwente.nl/77172/1/Koopman_BA_BMS_Psychology.pdf Pathogens created morality? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18302996/ And influenced the evolution of personality? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5246881_Pathogens_Personality_and_Culture_Disease_Prevalence_Predicts_Worldwide_Variability_in_Sociosexuality_Extraversion_and_Openness_to_Experience MHC Genes and Human Mating https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2018.2664 Sweaty T-shirt smell test https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7630893/ Averageness is one of the hallmarks of attraction https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4053512/ Sclera and human communication https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364661322002327 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Unique-morphology-of-the-human-eye-and-its-adaptive-Kobayashi-Kohshima/a534824215c918e3272c437f6a7c3310b56d547b https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/news/a-sixth-sense-how-we-can-tell-that-eyes-are-watching-us https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Eye-Aspect-Ratio-samples-for-several-eye-images-The-6-dots-represented-by-red-dots-are-p1_fig2_357439053 Uncanny Speech https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46420609_Uncanny_Speech How prediction errors in different systems generalize into other senses https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06677-6.pdf? Clips Nordin Walks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buL6XI71TJM&t=13s&ab_channel=NordinWalks Ijsaac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G46wdCitfZY&ab_channel=Ijsaac USC ICT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErODDCNQWdA&ab_channel=USCICT Mecharithm - Robotics and Mechatronics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcctl_KyQN8&ab_channel=Mecharithm-RoboticsandMechatronics mrhorseshoe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q16KpquGsIc&list=RDQ16KpquGsIc&start_radio=1&ab_channel=mrhorseshoe Cícero Moraes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6kb3DGPVqM&ab_channel=C%C3%ADceroMoraes calzino esotico ENG(exotic sock) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYrcx8-Ao-c&ab_channel=calzinoesotico ikinamo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmSYnOvEueo&ab_channel=ikinamo Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for 'fair use' for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use'. The pictures, footage & music displayed in this video are not my intellectual property, nor is it my intention to claim them as my own.