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Old 04-December-2008, 07:35 AM
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Originally Posted by BillyG View Post
well Google defines PAREIDOLIA as something like wanting to see it so much that you blow your sparkplugs. Yeah, there's artifacts, but it's all the other stuff, Mr crow-eater...
No it doesn't for one.
Maybe you need to research your word definitions better.

It is when you see what is not there. Like seeing a giraffe in a cloud shape. You don't have to want to see it (though that can most definitely help...), it is simply evolutionary conditioning of the brain.
It is better to see a predator that is not there than to not see one that is.

Why does this> Look like a face to us? A computer would not recognize it as a face nor equate it as a face. It's because of pareidolia.