HORROR THEORY: the uncanny valley

Content warning for dead animals. Thanks to Devon and JP for help. I messed up a couple of the VO lines but didn't have time to re-record. Sorry.

Links:
Mori’s Essay https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/the-uncanny-valley
Mori Interview https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/an-uncanny-mind-masahiro-mori-on-the-uncanny-valley
Mori 2005 http://web.archive.org/web/20170320193332/http://www.androidscience.com/theuncannyvalley/proceedings2005/MoriMasahiro22August2005.html
Upending the valley https://www.aaai.org/Papers/Workshops/2005/WS-05-11/WS05-11-005.pdf
Spadoni http://case.edu/artsci/engl/spadoni/spadoni-uncanny-body.pdf
Turnbull’s page http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/730
Macdorman’s site https://web.archive.org/web/20170924213955/http://www.macdorman.com/
The main article of his I cite https://web.archive.org/web/20161124014546/http://www.macdorman.com/kfm/writings/pubs/MacDorman2006AndroidScience.pdf
Another https://web.archive.org/web/20161111024838/http://www.androidscience.com/proceedings2006/8MacDorman2006Subjective.pdf
Ishiguro gets plastic surgery https://www.wired.com/2014/06/the-agony-of-being-a-japanese-robot-thats-almost-human/
Noel Carroll https://guionterror.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/philosophy-of-horror.pdf
If there's something else you want linked just mention it in the comments and I'll direct you that way.

Music is mostly Lemon Demon with Mister Heavenly at the end (plus the Cromartie theme and Promise (Reprise) from Silent Hill 2)

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