My pareidolia knows no bounds.

Rich,

Must have missed it - I'll go look it up.

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<br />To All,

This discussion, at least the most recent parts of it, about how different members see a particular word differently,
LB
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Just like we see pareidolic (rev 1) images based on what we know. That's been my contention since page 1.

I may be slow, but I really appreciate what you just did here. I hope Zip comes back.

rd

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<br />Zip Monster,

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OK, thanks. So it's "original" until (if/when) Zip changes it.

rd

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<br />Rich,

Must have missed it - I'll go look it up.
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Timestamp: Posted - 17 Dec 2013 : 14:22:36
Look for the little alarm clock.

rd

Look anywhere and see two dots and you have pareidolia (ressler). It is not such a rare phenomenon but so omnipresent. It rapidly changes from two dots to portraits of Leonardo etc. all over the place. If "Einstein" was captured so readily- picture all the shadows in the world that must be out there. Face recognition cameras etc. Is there some other way to get more detail than has shown up in shadows? If shadows show the most detail could that mean some higher that human thing is attempting to communicate and see if we also investigate pareidolia (ressler) the way we investigate just about everything else. People are always looking for a way to contact some deep/ heavy/ mysterious thing if it exists and here it is considered valueless/ apophenic/ kooky -with nowhere to rest it's weary head- but here. Thanks.

<b>[from the article you linked] "But maybe the reason a computer "sees" a face in that key is very simple: Things around us do sometimes actually have the shapes that constitute a face. How can we say this is pareidolia, a strange phenomenon that is supposedly the byproduct of millions of years of evolution, and not just the basic truth that sometimes shapes do look like things they are not? </b>

Good question. Perhaps we ought to re-define pareidolia(??) as 'sometimes things look like other things'. The fact that it took evolution millions of years to advance to the point where a brain could reliably make this particular mistake is not a feature of the phenomenon under examination.

A good name for this definition might be 'duh'


LB