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fully understood unless we look at some other psychological works and phenomenon. One of them is the uncanny valley. This was originally theorized in the seminal 1970s by the pioneer in Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori. The uncanny valley provides a theoretical model charting the hypothesized relationship between an odd-jipped degree of human likeness and a human observer's emotional affinity towards it. For those that have been listened to this net for a long time, you'll remember Ken speaking about this probably about a year, year and a half ago when he was talking about robots. This has come up a few as a matter of fact. Let me drop it. A Victor Alpha 3 victory was actually a 4-D. So Mori's theory dictates that as an object such as a puppet, a prosthesis or an android, increases in its anthropomorphic resemblance to a human being, the observer's affinity and sympathy