The ‘uncanny valley’ and spectating animated objects

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Notes

1 After all, there is reference in the quotation from Kean to ‘celebrities with bad facelifts’.

2 Guizzo (2010) offers a useful review of the literature and of the status of actual empirical testing of the UV effect hypothesis.

3 It may be worth noting that nothing in this idea presupposes that the experiences themselves are to be regarded positively; one can experience horror and like it, but one can just as easily experience feelings of warmth and security and dislike it.

4 A good source for explaining how Breuer and Twist managed the walls or screens – borrowed in style from a pre-Bunraku Japanese puppet tradition – see http://www.tcg.org/publications/at/sept11/williams_contemporary. cfm (accessed on 8 January 2015).

5 This explains why we ‘have’ moods or are ‘in’ a mood and do not use those locutions when we talk about our emotions; we say rather that we ‘are’ angry or ‘felt’ or ‘became’ saddened.

6 Scholl and Tremoulet (2000) offer a comprehensive overview of the state of play on these issues.

7 Part of this short film, together with some updated music, can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuZc89-kgRA (accessed on 10 January 2015).

8 The classic studies of ToM are found in Wimmer and Perner (1983); Baron-Cohen et al. (1985); Johnson et al. (2002); Lohman et al. (2005); and Hedger and Fabricius (2011).

9 The following is a summary of material to be found in Halpern and Pearl (2005a), (2005b) and Hitchcock (2007).

10 Dissident views, especially with respect to some of the more extravagantclaims Gallagher and Hutto have made, for example, that the approach represents a ‘second generation of cognitive science’ or that it demonstrates the inadequacy of ‘Theory of Mind’, can be found in Shapiro (2007) and Spaulding (2010, 2011).