{"id":6568,"date":"2023-10-15T10:35:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T15:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=6568"},"modified":"2023-11-06T06:00:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T12:00:46","slug":"pareidolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=6568","title":{"rendered":"Pareidolia?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday’s eclipse images<\/a> were disturbing, so I decided to have a session with my psychotherapist, ChatGPT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WLBOTT:<\/strong> I wanted to ask you about a psychological phenomena. The human brain tries to make faces out of patterns. Is there a word for this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ChatGPT:<\/strong> Yes, the phenomenon you’re referring to is called “pareidolia<\/strong>.” Pareidolia is the tendency of the human brain to perceive familiar patterns, such as faces or other recognizable objects, in random or ambiguous stimuli. It’s a form of pattern recognition, and it often leads people to see faces in things like clouds, rock formations, or even inanimate objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many interesting examples….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Devil’s Head<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Detail….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WLBOTT Wonders: Why don’t we see Richard Dawkins in a tortilla?<\/h3>\n\n\n
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[note that this article is over 10 years old, so Mr. Dawkins may have since appeared, although Google image search is a little thin on the topic.]<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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[It’s also a little thin for Mr. Hitchens.]<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Semi-sequitur: What?<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Master of Pareidolia: Giuseppe Arcimboldo<\/h3>\n\n\n
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By NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC\/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team, and ESAThe ACS Science Team: H. Ford, G. Illingworth, M. Clampin, G. Hartig, T. Allen, K. Anderson, F. Bartko, N. Benitez, J. Blakeslee, R. Bouwens, T. Broadhurst, R. Brown, C. Burrows, D. Campbell, E. Cheng, N. Cross, P. Feldman, M. Franx, D. Golimowski, C. Gronwall, R. Kimble, J. Krist, M. Lesser, D. Magee, A. Martel, W. J. McCann, G. Meurer, G. Miley, M. Postman, P. Rosati, M. Sirianni, W. Sparks, P. Sullivan, H. Tran, Z. Tsvetanov, R. White, and R. Woodruff. – http:\/\/www.spacetelescope.org\/images\/heic0206f\/, CC BY 4.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=1727941<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s eclipse images were disturbing, so I decided to have a session with my psychotherapist, ChatGPT. WLBOTT: I wanted to ask you about a psychological phenomena. The human brain tries to make faces out of patterns. Is there a word for this? ChatGPT: Yes, the phenomenon you’re referring to is called “pareidolia.” Pareidolia is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,35,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exonumia-is-not-contagious","category-fine-arts","category-mildly-interesting"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6568"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8804,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions\/8804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}