Is the feeling of being weirded out the same thing as a sense of the uncanny? 🤔
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they are initially equivalent until you think you know what exactly it is. And even then you might have mistaken one for the other.
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it is not dissimilar to crazy vs. brilliant. implicit biases and mental models make us perceive it one way or the other.
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perceiving something as what it actually is without the filter of the mind is extremely hard. Running mind in debug mode can help.
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weirding out is more about individual perception, while uncannyness has a significantly larger implicit objective component
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