Re: How does comp explain the uncanny valley?

2012-01-03 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: The effect isn't limited to human beings or facial cues though. Taxidermy and wax museums elicit the same response. The creepy thing about wax museums is that the lifelike 3D depictions of apparently healthy people don't move.

Re: How does comp explain the uncanny valley?

2012-01-03 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: The problem is that the logic of comp doesn't seem to have a reason to invent a revulsion response associated with increasing fidelity of simulation If the simulation is good enough for our excellent ability to

Re: Movie Graph Argument: A Refutation

2012-01-03 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 02.01.2012 21:32 meekerdb said the following: On 1/2/2012 12:24 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 02.01.2012 07:01 meekerdb said the following: ... Everett's MWI is based on QM which does assume a background time and the state of the multiverse evolves in Hilbert space. This evolution entails

Re: Movie Graph Argument: A Refutation

2012-01-03 Thread meekerdb
On 1/3/2012 12:24 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 02.01.2012 21:32 meekerdb said the following: On 1/2/2012 12:24 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 02.01.2012 07:01 meekerdb said the following: ... Everett's MWI is based on QM which does assume a background time and the state of the multiverse

Re: How does comp explain the uncanny valley?

2012-01-03 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Jan 3, 10:23 am, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: The effect isn't limited to human beings or facial cues though. Taxidermy and wax museums elicit the same response. The creepy thing about wax museums is that the

Re: How does comp explain the uncanny valley?

2012-01-03 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Jan 3, 11:10 am, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: The problem is that the logic of comp doesn't seem to have a reason to invent a revulsion response associated with increasing fidelity of simulation If