I seem to vaguely remember a discussion we had a while back about the Polar Express, and the semi-realistic the characters were. Someone had a term for how our mind rejects almost-copies of humans, something like the uneven valley, or some such.

Ring any bells? Anyone still have a link to whatever the article was that talked about that?

You mean Uncanny Valley?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley#The_Uncanny_Valley_in_games

http://www.arclight.net/~pdb/nonfiction/uncanny-valley.html

Lani

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