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the science behind this is actually quite interesting
it’s that human beings have a tendency to see faces in things
Pareidolia, which is attributing significance to random and irrelevant stimulus
but from an evolutionary standpoint, we, theoretically, developped an ability to see faces with minimal details/seeing them from far/with poor visibility. basically, you see a face a lot faster and can quickly tell if it’s friend or foe.
so now when certain patterns are lined up a certain way we look at it and think OH THAT’S A FACE. like, :). it’s obviously not a face, but we think it looks like one and quickly recognize it as much.
which i think is fascinating.
similarly, Prosopagnosia is a disorder where a person’s ability to recognize faces is impaired. but not other objects. you can see a celery and know, that’s a celery. that’s a chair. that’s an eye. that’s a nose, that’s a mouth. but the big picture of an entire face, that is something you don’t recognize what it is.
again, fascinating. also oliver sacks wrote a book called “the man who mistook his wife for a hat”, which is a series of essays discussing case studies of patients with various brain pathologies. like hemisphere neglect, and agnosias, etc
again, to sum it up, the human brain is fascinating.
HAHA, SCIENCE!
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Spotted at a bus stop 3 blocks away from my house! asjdfklasjd is this real life?
I get really excited whenever I see something like this because my belief is that cool things people do that I hear about online won’t appear in my life, ever. Yet here is a second instance of the #believeinSherlock movement!
life lessons learned from my wonderful friend :D
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