"While minds create things, things also create minds..." 136
what they left became buried in talcum fine loess., crushed rock dust blown from
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Kindred, Sykes
In 1970, a Japanese robotics researcher named Masahiro Mori posited a complex phenomenon known as the uncanny valley. His basic theory was that we respond positively to a robot as it becomes more human in look but only up to a certain point. And then suddenly, we are strongly repelled by it.