Humans are better at telling patterns apart than most animals and even machines, it is one of the few things we are honestly super amazing at - noticing patterns, seeing things, telling distance apart, telling things apart, and so on. So I was thinking, uncanny valley, people have often talked about how it could have been used to tell apart healthy humans from sick, unstable, and dead in general. Outside of various cultural explanations people might have, the general consesus seems to be that Uncanny Valley, as a feeling, was developed by us, actively, to prtotect us against things that are "almost human but can cause us harm". Diseased or unstable? That could mean conflict and death. Dead? You better not eat it or have sex with it, or you might catch something. But here is a different thought - what if instead of being an actively developed trait that we, well, developed to do "X", what if it is instead more of a negative by-product of how great our eyes are?

What I mean is that, when you increase efficiency of one thing, there is usually consequences to that since things are interconnected like that. So, what if uncanny valley was not developed by us for anything at all, but is in fact a byproduct of our ability to see patterns - because we see them so well, when we fail to see them, or see something that breaks those patterns, our brain immediately sees it as "danger" and sends us into "flight or fight" response.

It is commonly known, I believe, that we humans don't like broken patterns. Images that don't make sense, music that does not follow musical structure, sounds that don't finish the way we expect them to finish - humans don't like when patterns are broken, when things are unwhole.

And another reason to consider this is the fact that, seemingly, only we experience it. Other animals, it seems, don't really experience uncanny valley the way we do, they don't expect "danger" from something that is simply "does not adhere to a pattern". Further possible suggestions of our strong eyes being the real culprit behind it then? Thoughts tho?