It's called "corpse". Often riddled with diseases.
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I remember a documentary about a famous northwest passage expedition that was never seen again. One of the inuit people they talked to during an investigation claimed they found a boat, and in the captain's quarters they found a body in the bed with a big smile on its face. That would be absolutely terrifying, but apparently that's what naturally happens to corpses when their lips and gums receed.
maybe hairless chimps too. Those things are crazy
They will rip your dick out, Jamie send that video of jacked hairless chimps
You're right though, as soon as someone dies, there's something not right at all about how they look. They don't look asleep, they look uncanny valley.
It also covers those who are not biologically fit to be mates. Various conditions can appear as physical traits.
Or you need to identify those who aren't behaving properly (sickness or other resource intense disability) and should be outcast from the group (something we don't need to do today, but the right wing narrative insists that need to do)
we should be outcasting all sorts of toxic behaviors instead of putting them in charge.
I do believe there's a happy medium between out-casting and electing, probably even a large amount of medium space.
But that's not what you get in a first past the post system.
Actually, tribal humans tend to support people with disabilities, even severe ones. It's only feudal and capitalist societies that treat disabled people with cruelty. It isn't natural.
It would be a evolutionary benefit to fear / avoid any person that is behaving strangely in certain distinct ways. Could be a dangerous transmittable disease, i.e. rabies etc.
It's probably the entire reason people lost their shit over the idea of catching leprosy.
The humanoids we evolved from were at one point, not the only humanoids around. We coexisted with other, different species (neanderthals being an example). Homosapien is just the one that survived.
Yes. A dead body.
Neanderthals and others existed contemporaneously didn't they...
... but also, so many parts of our brain are needed to do facial recognition that we're prone to seeing faces where there are none...
...so it's possible that what we're on the watch for is other humans trying to ambush us, which means regular people hiding = uncanny valley = fear.
I was thinking of the Denisovans
Don't forget Bigfoot, the rake, and skin walkers.
not to mention el chupacabra
edit: dammit I mentioned him
Not necessarily fear it's just most of the time today it's used in horror
Back then it was probably used to differentiate Neanderthals
or corpses
Or Lizard people first trying to study us.
Well, I didn't vote for them.
Lizard people are a dumb conspiracy!
licks eyes angrily
I doubt that premise. Neanderthals looked different, but not uncanny valley. Horror and fear may have been involved sometimes, but so was sex and competition... Neanderthals probably just looked like big chinless people
According to commercial genetics testing, I'm more Neanderthal than 90% of other people that used the same major company. My ancestors were into some kinky 👉👌
This made me look up what a Neanderthal would look like in modern clothing and this was one of the results:
Asmongold?...
Or the biological need to be afraid of ourselves because if I saw a human standing in my backyard in the shadows I would be as scared as if it were an alien, humans aren't a joke when they want to kill or maim and humans love to kill or maim if they need something you have
Our instincts draw from pretty far back in our biological origins as well. The notion of mimiclike predators is pretty damned ancient and likely a factor for very earliest common ancestry.
Mimiclike predators sound like psychopaths. Which, very much would be a reason we evolved uncanny valley, but they learned to blend in.
We still do. They’re called psychopaths. It’s been a problem for so long that we’ve evolved an instinctual response to it.
Have we though? We still vote for them and populate the business rooms with them...
...my theory is different. I think this is evolutionary back to competition with similar species.
"But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that's going to be Human and isn't yet, or used to be Human once and isn't now, or ought to be Human and isn't, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet."
Back 4 million years the whole world really was a planet of the apes. So in some ways recognising something that wasn't your species, but looked like it might have avoided conflict, loss of territory, loss of food..
Yep and they were called Neanderthals.
But Homo Sapiens readily breeded with not only the Neanderthals but the Denisovans as well
Some of them did. We all know a few people that would go ahead and fuck what the rest of us would be scared to go near. Those genes survived too.
Illness, death, and antisocial behavior. All of these were threats we evolved to handle, people who are "a little bit off" in one way or another, who might endanger the group or individual. This, and that our pattern seeking brains don't like it when something doesn't easily fit within an existing schema, even more so if it lies just outside of our existing preconceptions.
Obviously, I can't say that these definitely are the reasons why we experience the uncanny valley, but I think it's probably a better explanation than... Skin walkers? Or whatever else the meme would be implying.
Still, it's a cool premise for a horror story at least.
Bleachy-teeth people, this means you
Don't grin at me you fucked up freak 😂
The leading theory is Rabies.
I just wanted one funny meme before bed not nightmare fuel but here we go
I mean, we existed as the same time as other early ape species (which we killed off like the monsters we are), so it makes sense.
Or it's just that something feels off, fellow human.
On the other hand, maybe because we're a highly social species and some people are just crazy, which you see in their face or behavior.
Ancient androids, obviously.