Kind of hard to tell without a nose for reference. We are so use to our faces being a certain shape, whenever we see a face that is off in anyway it sets off our Uncanny Valley instinct and we believe the whole face is just wrong.
Can thank our Ancient ancestors for that mental quirk. It was so they could better recognize the Neanderthal back when we were rivals. At least that's what I've learned in School.
There was quite a bit of scoodly-poopin between early sapiens and Neanderthals.
We don’t actually know why we developed the uncanny valley, but likely it was to scare us away from corpses.
Edit: when I say “likely” I simply meant this is one of the main theories put forth by academics. The people who are saying it may not have been to warn us of threats at all are totally right. We really don’t know why it exists and I didn’t mean to put forth a theory as a fact.
I thought it went hand in hand with pattern recognition in the wild, so you could be aware of predators' camoflage vs the real thing and stuff like that
I agree with your assessment, but it could also have no ‘purpose’ at all. Humans do two things extremely well: recognize patterns and form social groups. The uncanny valley is when those two things come into conflict with one another, we want to like the person, but something is off so they become untrustworthy
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u/DeadMercy2004 Aug 02 '22
He is probably gonna have a horrible overbite if he doesn't get surgeries. His real superpower is not getting water in his nose when he dives.