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Pareidolia

Pareidolia. How it saved our ancestors from tigers. How many faces can you see?. If the answer is zero. This will eat you. Here is an easier one. Can you see a tiger?. Would you risk it?. Pareidolia:.

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Pareidolia

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  1. Pareidolia How it saved our ancestors from tigers

  2. How many faces can you see? If the answer is zero...

  3. This will eat you.

  4. Here is an easier one...

  5. Can you see a tiger? Would you risk it?

  6. Pareidolia: “There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good-will to everything, that hurts or pleases us.” -- David Hume Learn more at the Skeptic’s Dictionary: www.skepdic.com

  7. Seeing Things • Para-faulty • Eidolon-image

  8. Seeing Things • Pareidolia: "A vague image falsely recognized as something familiar." • overdeveloped pattern matching faculties

  9. Our eyes see something and our mind interprets its structure. The result is the experience of seeing something that really is not there.

  10. The “Face on Mars” 1976 View from Viking 1 1998 View from Mars Global Surveyor

  11. Image source:forums.canadiancontent.net/hot-topics/49270 I once saw an image of a face in a dirty diaper but I didn't try to publicize it. Is their event more or less special than mine? Are they the same?

  12. Do you see a face?

  13. Do you see a face?

  14. Rorschach Inkblot Tests

  15. Audio Pareidolia George Bush George Bush - reversed

  16. Break on Through Break on Through - reversed Break on Through - full

  17. Sine waves

  18. Electronic Voice Phenomenon

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