My pareidolia knows no bounds.

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<br />new study says humans may be Hard Wired to See Snakes Not Faces. In fact, we may have snakes to thank for our high-quality vision, according to new research.

Link www.voanews.com/content/humans-may-be-ha...-snakes/1779293.html

Zip Monster


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I see this as a confirming bit of news, rather than the other way around.

rd

Rich,

I'm serious about the rules I posted. I'm going to start enforcing them soon.

Before you can use the word 'pareidolia' (currently UNDEFINED) you have to post a definition that follows the rules.

Here is a suggestion for how to format a defining post:

Reference - yada
Definition - bada
Name - bing

Then you and others can use it like this: blah blah ... pareidolia (bing) ... blah blah

... OR ...

You can complain about how unfair this is. And we can talk. I've seen flame wars erupt over smaller things than this and I'm experimenting with some ideas I've had about how to stop them.

Accurate communication is unreasonably hard. Everyone using different definitions is part of the reason.


LB

<b>[rderoas] "In my opinion that would be a bonafied pareidolic image even though it's in the ruins of a man-made object."</b>

Good point. Good post. Still does not follow the new rules. Tick tock.

LB

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Zip Monster</i>
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Note: Pareidolia isn't a common phenomenon, it's a rare mental disorder. The over used word paraboloid is actually associated with Hallucinations not image projection.

As an example - the facial aspects observed on the Face on Mars are confirmed features that have been photographed over and over, not delusional hallucinations that "appear" as defined by pareidolia.
Zip Monster

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Ignoring the accusations of me having a rare mental disorder (lol), you are mis-representing what we've been saying all along. Nowhere have we ever claimed that these images are "delusional hallucinations."

A lady up the block from me, who is retired from 30 years teaching at Cornell U. in New York, recently sent me a picture of a "Lady" peaking over the trees down the block from her. When you sit in her living room, you can see the lady peering over the house, so that you can't see her mouth and chin. She's made up totally of the tree in the distance. It's not a hallucination. Go back there the next day and it's still there. Eventually, growth will make it disappear.

This friend of mine is quite sane.

rd

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by rderosa</i>
<br /><blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Zip Monster</i>
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Note: Pareidolia isn't a common phenomenon, it's a rare mental disorder. The over used word paraboloid is actually associated with Hallucinations not image projection.

As an example - the facial aspects observed on the Face on Mars are confirmed features that have been photographed over and over, not delusional hallucinations that "appear" as defined by pareidolia.
Zip Monster

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Ignoring the accusations of me having a rare mental disorder (lol), you are mis-representing what we've been saying all along. Nowhere have we ever claimed that these images are "delusional hallucinations."

A lady up the block from me, who is retired from 30 years teaching at Cornell U. in New York, recently sent me a picture of a "Lady" peeking over the trees down the block from her. When you sit in her living room, you can see the lady peering over the house, so that you can't see her mouth and chin. She's made up totally of the tree in the distance. It's not a hallucination. Go back there the next day and it's still there. Eventually, growth will make it disappear.

This friend of mine is quite sane.

rd
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rd

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Larry Burford</i>
<br /><b>[rderoas] "In my opinion that would be a bonafied pareidolic image even though it's in the ruins of a man-made object."</b>

Good point. Good post. Still does not follow the new rules. Tick tock.

LB
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Hmmm. What did I miss? I've defined it so many times, I feel I'm being repetitive.

rd