What do you think the purpose of the human sense of "the uncanny valley" is? Is it to detect jews, an evolutionary tool to prevent miscegenation, a means to avoid genetic disease propagation, something to detect human mimics or something else entirely different?

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Why would humans have a developed sense of uneasiness when we see something that doesn't quite line up with human characteristics properly? Is it simply an evolutionary tool to keep humans within their own races or is there something else going on here? How would such a sense still keep going on after countless generations if there wasn't a need to detect these subtle differences? What do you think the purpose for the uncanny valley sense to keep existing in modern humans?

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Just a natural feature of perception of things. Things that straddle the boundary will be weird. It's like one of those optical illusions where your visual system goes back and forth between two interpretations.

I suppose there is some element of the human version with being sure it's a friend or not some trick. There's definitely something similar with deciphering male from female, with regards to sexual attraction.

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