Too real to like (Image: Shawn Steckenfinger and Asif Ghazanfar)
IT TURNS out monkeys are as creeped out by their CGI counterparts as we are. Show them a monkey face that’s uncannily life-like and they look away. This might mean that there is an evolutionary explanation for our disgust of non-humans who seem too real.
In the 1970s, Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori noticed that, although we like robots that have some human features, we start to find them eerie when they look too real. “. Since then, the response has…
