xadnem: isaacsapphire:fuckingconversations: princesshamlet: masochist-incarnate:look-at-all-those-
xadnem: isaacsapphire:fuckingconversations: princesshamlet: masochist-incarnate: look-at-all-those-fandoms-wow: vrabia: athelind: niuniente: soft-necromancing-crow: hyenasnake: helloitsbees: hauntedcreek: 61below: simonalkenmayer: despairgyaru: simonalkenmayer: fastascardboard: pipocaflamingo: pipocaflamingo: Sorry to say, but they do the exact same thing for humans too. It’s amazing how people in the notes and comments are absolutely FURIOUS at me for the included Frozen comparison. Special shout out to everyone trying to prove that real people look like this. Not to mention that when people edit these characters to have better facial proportions, the originals look like bizarre fish people. How humans draw themselves is always fascinating to me op why are you speaking like you aren’t human i’m scared Eh…perhaps read my blog description. this post has EVERYTHING I think I know the reason for why people prefer “unrealistic” animation. For some reason, humans really don’t like things that look like humans but aren’t quite human. Hence why a lot of people are uncomfortable with movies with animation like Monster House and The Polar Express. It looks too realistic to us and sets us off. Scientists call this the “Uncanny Valley” effect and its thought to be an evolutionary tactic for survival. The funny part is. No other animals that we know of experience the uncanny valley effect. Only humans. Which leaves the question: what was out there that mimicked humans so well and was so dangerous to us that we evolved to have this as a tactic for survival? Oh hell yeah this is what I’m here for Which leaves the question: what was out there that mimicked humans so well and was so dangerous to us that we evolved to have this as a tactic for survival? @hitodama89 Okay, I’ve seen this thread a dozen times before, but not with this addendum. i made the original post in the throes of unmedicated depression because that’s where my sense of humor was at the time. i don’t check my activity page. seeing it barge onto my dash months later with +250k notes and this exchange attached to it like a bunch of rattling tin cans attached to the tail of a rabid dog running loose is fucking WILD So sometime after whenever humans developed the uncanny valley effect, did we just hunt this mysterious predator to extinction? Or did it die out on it’s own? Or did it evolve as well into something… else? Could it still be living on Earth today? Idk why dont we ask the “people eating cryptid” who claims to be from a species that’s easy to hide and apparently passes as human who’s like, 3 reblogs above this? Hey fun fact; Back when Homo sapiens weren’t the end-all of hominids, we also had some other two legged “humanish” cousins like the Neanderthals, Denisovians, and more! There were nine different species of “humans” By 10,000 years ago, they were all gone. The disappearance of these other species resembles a mass extinction. But there’s no obvious environmental catastrophe – volcanic eruptions, climate change, asteroid impact – driving it.Instead, the extinctions’ timing suggests they were caused by the spread of a new species, evolving 260,000-350,000 years ago in Southern Africa: Homo sapiens.Neanderthal skeletons show patterns of trauma consistent with warfare. Like language or tool use, a capacity for and tendency to engage in genocide is arguably an intrinsic, instinctive part of human nature. Optimists have painted early hunter-gatherers as peaceful, noble savages, and have argued that our culture, not our nature, creates violence. But field studies, historical accounts, and archaeology all show that war in primitive cultures was intense, pervasive and lethal.Basically: the reason we as Homo Sapians find other human-ish figures unsettling and have an instinctual fear/aggression response called “The Uncanny Valley” is because we literally TOOK OVER THE WORLD by hunting down and killing every other hominid on the planet. Dunno if the “9 species of hominid genocide” was a result of uncanny valley or the cause of it, but it’s a pretty sure bet to guess they’re linked. Read more about it here :) This is a wonderful post. Not sure where you’re getting that “no other species experience the uncanny valley” bit from, since most of my experiences with animals seeing things that don’t quite look like them have suggested the opposite, but that’s all anecdotal so whatever. You could certainly say that it is in our nature to be genocidal if that’s the sort of worldview you feel like encouraging, but I personally think there’s a much simpler and far less hamfisted “humans are all monsters by default” reason why the uncanny valley effect exists, and that’s corpses. A corpse is subtly different from a living person, and our brains are very good at pattern recognition and categorization, so they lump everything that differs from us in a similar way to how corpses differ from us all into one big category. Then when we see something animate within that spectrum of “that’s probably a corpse,” our brains go “hey wait that’s fucked up.” That’s just conjecture of course, because I think going to the effort of getting a cultural anthropology degree just to be right on the internet is just barely too expensive to be worth it. But the idea that the uncanny valley exists to better facilitate genocide implies that racism is genetic, not cultural. -- source link