pareidolia

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(11 August 2008) - At one time or another you've likely experienced some type of pareidolia, the mind's trick of seeing a face where there isn't one.

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  • Sometimes, I'm not certain that all so-called trends initially exist, or if the desire to classify stories into categories is really just a symptom of pareidolia, our need to see patterns in everything. —  Asimov'sSF,October-November2007
  • What's a tabloid news-week without a case of religious pareidolia, complete with weeping onlookers? —  Posthuman Blues
  • (11 August 2008) - At one time or another you've likely experienced some type of pareidolia, the mind's trick of seeing a face where there isn't one. —  Cool Hunting
  • A more specific type of apophenia, applicable here, would be pareidolia: perceiving significance in stimuli that have none. —  techyum ::
  • But, as mentioned before, sometimes the stimulus is just too convincing, the pareidolia too blatant. —  techyum ::
 

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