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Author: chazwinchazwin Date: Jun 11, 2008 02:21
Have you ever played that game on a picnic, lying down watching the
clouds go by and pointing out camels and frogs and especially human
faces in the clouds? Maybe you have seen the same stuff in the cracks
in the ceiling on a lazy Sunday morning, or in the bathroom wallpaper
whilst having an extended dump?
Humans find patterns, even where they don't exist. Science is littered
with the discredited patterns of scientific theories of the past.
The visual pattern recognition is the most intense.
Check out this website from a frequent visitor to alt.philosophy.
Check out his "Martian fossils". This guy has fossils of stuff that
don't even fossilise.
http://www.wretch.cc/album/lin440315
Be careful - it might make you wretch!
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Author: ZerkonXZerkonX Date: Jun 11, 2008 03:26
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:21:33 -0700, chazwin wrote:
> Humans find patterns, even where they don't exist.
I think they find patterns where patterns exist. What isn't found is what
those patterns represent. So there is the pattern of a human face in the
clouds but not a human face itself.
This is the same vulnerability that 'intelligent design' suffers from.
> Science is littered with the discredited patterns of scientific
> theories of the past. The visual pattern recognition is the most
> intense.
Exactly.
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Author: ZerkonXZerkonX Date: Jun 11, 2008 03:34
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:21:33 -0700, chazwin wrote:
> Humans find patterns, even where they don't exist.
I think they find patterns where patterns exist. What isn't found is what
those patterns represent. So there is the pattern of a human face in the
clouds but not a human face itself.
This is the same vulnerability that 'intelligent design' suffers from.
> Science is littered with the discredited patterns of scientific
> theories of the past. The visual pattern recognition is the most
> intense.
Exactly.
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Author: chazwinchazwin Date: Jun 11, 2008 05:48
On Jun 11, 11:26 am, ZerkonX X.net> wrote:> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:21:33 -0700, chazwin wrote:
>> Humans find patterns, even where they don't exist.
>
> I think they find patterns where patterns exist. What isn't found is what
> those patterns represent. So there is the pattern of a human face in the
> clouds but not a human face itself.
>
> This is the same vulnerability that 'intelligent design' suffers from.
True enough. Though, try to make one see the error!
>
>> Science is littered with the discredited patterns of scientific
>> theories of the past. The visual pattern recognition is the most
>> intense.
>
> Exactly.
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Author: chazwinchazwin Date: Jun 11, 2008 05:49
On Jun 11, 11:26 am, ZerkonX X.net> wrote:> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:21:33 -0700, chazwin wrote:
>> Humans find patterns, even where they don't exist.
>
> I think they find patterns where patterns exist. What isn't found is what
> those patterns represent. So there is the pattern of a human face in the
> clouds but not a human face itself.
>
> This is the same vulnerability that 'intelligent design' suffers from.
True enough. Though, try to make one see the error!
>
>> Science is littered with the discredited patterns of scientific
>> theories of the past. The visual pattern recognition is the most
>> intense.
>
> Exactly.
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Author: Leon HoeneveldLeon Hoeneveld Date: Jun 11, 2008 06:01
chazwin schreef:
> Have you ever played that game on a picnic, lying down watching the
> clouds go by and pointing out camels and frogs and especially human
> faces in the clouds? Maybe you have seen the same stuff in the cracks
> in the ceiling on a lazy Sunday morning, or in the bathroom wallpaper
> whilst having an extended dump?
> Humans find patterns, even where they don't exist. Science is littered
> with the discredited patterns of scientific theories of the past.
> The visual pattern recognition is the most intense.
>
> Check out this website from a frequent visitor to alt.philosophy.
> Check out his "Martian fossils". This guy has fossils of stuff that
> don't even fossilise.
>
> http://www.wretch.cc/album/lin440315
>
> Be careful - it might make you wretch!
> I had a good laugh...
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Date: Jun 11, 2008 09:29
chazwin wrote:
> Have you ever played that game on a picnic, lying down watching the
> clouds go by and pointing out camels and frogs and especially human
> faces in the clouds? Maybe you have seen the same stuff in the cracks
> in the ceiling on a lazy Sunday morning, or in the bathroom wallpaper
> whilst having an extended dump?
I once read in a magazine that the dopamine neurotransmitter helps you
recognize patterns.
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