julllia wrote:Are ghosts in the uncanny valley. Because they do not feel the same?
No, because they don't exist.
However, the way ghosts are often portrayed in movies often uses the uncanny valley effect to make them appear more disturbing.
Earlier, I used the image of the mask from Scream to demonstrate how warping existing human features would cause the effect, similar to how we tend to respond to those with deforming injuries.
Making ghosts appear slightly different to people in subtle, yet impossible, ways puts them into the uncanny valley and heightens people's fear to good effect.
It demonstrates a threat which we have no direct experience with, so we have no way to counteract or rationalise it.