> 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.
Tuning is a big problem for people. The lower animals don't have a
problem with tuning. More complex animals, individuals, already need
some kind of social structure to stay tuned. And humans need complex
language and culture to stay tuned with each other (it fails most of the
time).
I see pattern recognition as an example of tuning. When most of the
people see the same patterns they are "tuned" and can survive more
easily. It's as if they have one mind, like in a bee hive.
So pattern recognition is not something to ridicualize. It's one of the
things that keeps us tuned, this pittyfull individual creature called man.
