Website review: Open the Future: The Second Uncanny...
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darsius rated 3 months ago- very good article, it appears that if Transhumanism begins on the individual level it will have server cultural backlashes due to how "creepy" Transhumans may look and act. This implies that change toward Transhumanism should be slow and steady allowing it to become a world-wide cultural movement. Hell I want to be made out of Nano-technology damnit!
- eat rated 3 months ago
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- Jonoleth rated 3 months ago
- The article talks about a side beyond perfect human likeness on the Uncanny Valley graph (the idea that close to human likeness, but not quite, would produce a strong dislike, think zombies and Real Dolls), where transhumans and posthumans would lie. The point that is being made is that creatures that would look more human than humans would fit in yet another dislike dip on the graph, but _on the other side_. This is of course ridiculous, and as Nato Welch points out in the comments, you can't look more human than a human. A trans or posthuman that started developing non-human traits would go back on the scale of human likeness, not forward.
- LafnLion rated 6 months ago
- The Uncanny Valley - the natural feeling of disgust at viewing something that is almost human - but not quite - cuts on both sides of our reactions to what we see. We feel loathing for that which is not quite right, and also loathing for that which is better than real.
