Uncanny
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The Un-Canny Valley
The term canny is often used to describe like the skill of athletes, but it's also about something more intimate and close to me. So first it's un, and then it's Heimlich, right? I think that's the nice dialectical dimension of it. It's not a spectrum that Freud is, is designating. Like you've ever seen the chart of the un-canny valley where you start with something that's okay, and thenIt's some becomes not okay,. And then it's like, then I guess it's okay again in this like, in this graphic.
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