Dr. Frank McAndrew
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Podcast Appearances
And you can't see very far into the distance.
And you don't know that there's anything there that's going to harm you.
Are you sure?
But you're not sure.
Yeah.
And so, again, you're hypervigilant trying to figure out if there's something to be afraid of.
So creepiness is all about ambiguity, the uncertainty.
Once you've figured out there is something to be afraid of and you know what it is, that's where the scary thing comes in.
Yeah, we're programmed to think of worst case scenarios.
So imagine your caveman ancestor walking through the woods and it's getting dark.
And they hear some things rustling in the bushes.
Okay.
It could be a predator.
It could be an enemy waiting to get you.
Or it could just be a small animal or the wind or something like that.
Oh, I see.
Okay.
What kind of mistake do you want to make here?
If you decide it's probably just the wind or a rabbit and it's not, those genes get removed from the population pretty quickly.
Because your chill ass has died.