My pareidolia knows no bounds.

<b>[rderosa] "... were playing in the realm of Fred's yin/yang.</b>

You mean as in deliberately playing with the participants ... with mirth aforethought?

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<br /><b>[rderosa] "The patterns are real, and we see them, ..."</b>

Real? Yes, tentatively. ...

With no <u>physical</u> pattern to serve as a 'nucleation site' for the perceived image, I'm inclined to say that we are now dealing with a psychological phenomenon. Like a hallucination. But I get your inference, in that "original" probably saw pareidolia as <s>nothing</s> little more than hallucination.

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The lack of a physical pattern is NOT synonymous with the lack of a real pattern.
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1. Tentatively? In most cases I would say yes, they are real.

2. They called them "partial hallucinations", so again, there's some grey area here. I can almost understand why Zip Monster wanted to resurrect this definition. (Zip, are you there?)

3. I don't understand. And what's DRP?

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>
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You mean as in deliberately playing with the participants ... with mirth aforethought?

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From same reference, I mean Def. 6:

play (pl)
v. played, playing, plays
v.intr.
1. To occupy oneself in amusement, sport, or other recreation: children playing with toys.
2.
a. To take part in a game: No minors are eligible to play.
b. To participate in betting; gamble.
3. To act in jest or sport: They're not arguing in earnest, they're just playing.
4. To deal or behave carelessly or indifferently; toy. See Synonyms at flirt.
5. To behave or converse sportively or playfully.
6. To act or conduct oneself in a specified way: play fair; an investor who plays cautiously.
7. To act, especially in a dramatic production.

rd

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I'm convinced you're correct. We are talking about recognizing patterns, and all that follows from that, and all that is implied by that.

rd

We see what is on our mind. There is no separation between us and the universe. We dream night and day.

DRP = Deep Reality Physics. It is a name invented by Tom several years before his death to label what his Meta Model was evolving into.

It is a pun on the claim by adherents of the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Physics that "there is no deep reality" to the universe.

He was never much of a marketing type, but I have always thought that this is a brilliant marketing piece.