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or an android, increases in its anthropomorphic resemblance to a human being. The observer's affinity and sympathy for initially rises in a predictable positive correlation. However, this relationship isn't perfectly linear. Once the object reaches a certain point, which is specific to the individual, and the object becomes more lifelike, but it's imperfect, so its degree of human resemblance becomes more human-like. But again, it's an imperfect degree of resemblance. There's a sudden sharpened extreme drop in the popularity and affinity that people feel towards this. So when you represent this on a conceptual graph, where the y-axis represents the milliarity or sympathy, and the x-axis represents the degree of anthropomorphism, you see this sudden drop and it forms a literal valley of what he termed revulsion on the chart before sharply rising again as the imitation becomes almost indistinguishable.