Seeing faces
Apr. 19th, 2007 08:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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mckitterick, I ganked this: that the Face on Mars is - shock, horror! - actually not a face at all, tho' it still looks like one to me; but what I really treasure, what I want to point you-all at, is that we have a word for it! That universal human tendency to see faces in things, to invest the inanimate and null with familiarity and meaning: there is a legitimate English word, and it is pareidolia.
That is all. You may return to your workaday worlds, with your vocabulary (in most cases) enriched. Go forth and commit pareidolia immediately, in order to commit it to memory.
mckitterick, I ganked this: that the Face on Mars is - shock, horror! - actually not a face at all, tho' it still looks like one to me; but what I really treasure, what I want to point you-all at, is that we have a word for it! That universal human tendency to see faces in things, to invest the inanimate and null with familiarity and meaning: there is a legitimate English word, and it is pareidolia.That is all. You may return to your workaday worlds, with your vocabulary (in most cases) enriched. Go forth and commit pareidolia immediately, in order to commit it to memory.