https://twitter.com/FacesPics
via http://globalnews.ca/news/1314023/why-some-people-encounter-the-jesus-in-toast-phenomenon/
e.g.
Grumpy Cat in an apple
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlOBKotIYAEASRB.jpg)
Haunted kitchen cupboard door
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlC86wpIQAAU_u6.png)
Muffin Dog or Dog Muffin?
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Berx8FeIgAA1NQj.jpg)
I was reading about a disorder that means a person can't identify faces at all, not between people or even see them in things (like a car would appear to have a face with the headlights / grille etc). They identify people by other factors like clothes they wear, how they move, etc
Quote from: Mr. Analog on May 07, 2014, 10:09:55 AM
I was reading about a disorder that means a person can't identify faces at all, not between people or even see them in things (like a car would appear to have a face with the headlights / grille etc). They identify people by other factors like clothes they wear, how they move, etc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia aka "face blindness" (https://www.google.com/search?q=face+blindness).
As noteably expemplified in an episode of the brilliant network* TV series Hannibal -- http://hannibal.wikia.com/wiki/Georgia_Madchen
And also less noteably dealt with in some movie nobody saw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faces_in_the_Crowd_(film)).
"in Greek, prosopo is face and agnosia means without knowledge" -2006 Wired article (http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/blind.html?pg=2)
Brad Pitt might even have it. (http://www.medpagetoday.com/CelebrityDiagnosis/39420)
Prosopagnosia is just one of many "flavors" of visual agnosia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_agnosia) -- Mr. A suffers from one of them, correct?
*I still can't believe with all the cable offerings out there amongst which it woulda certainly felt right at home, that Hannibal was picked up by -- and properly supported/marketed by -- freakin' NBC! Amazing...
IF we're talking about movies about medical conditions, I found Adam (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185836/) to be an insightful look into the world of Asperger's / mild ASD. Heartbreaking, but insightful.
Quote from: Thorin on May 07, 2014, 12:13:07 PM
IF we're talking about movies about medical conditions, I found Adam (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185836/) to be an insightful look into the world of Asperger's / mild ASD. Heartbreaking, but insightful.
Starring Hugh Dancy aka lead actor in...
HANNIBAL #freakyCoincidenceITT
Our mortal brains are both intricately awesome and incredibly undependable. It's like there's multiple brains fighting and one of them has to "win" -- often one sense over-rides the other, even if logically you "know" it shouldn't!
For example, what you correctly hear can be replaced with INCORRECT information based on WHAT YOU SEE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lN8vWm3m0 <-- the McHurk Effect , especially disturbing around the 2 minute mark (after it is explained, you STILL experience it --watch that section of video first with your eyes open and then closed to confirm!)
...and to top it off, sometimes there's no "winner", instead our powerful pattern-matching noggin "combines" into something completely new and different than the 2 individual sensory inputs. #brainHurtsNow
Kind of reminds me of that school skit in Little Britain where the teacher is saying one thing while writing something completely different on the chalkboard
"Today we're studying History" *writes Maths*
Quote from: Mr. Analog on May 07, 2014, 01:52:30 PM
Kind of reminds me of that school skit in Little Britain where the teacher is saying one thing while writing something completely different on the chalkboard
"Today we're studying History" *writes Maths*
(http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131208235433/walkingdead/images/6/6a/Kanye-West-Shaking-Head-No.gif)
Yes, I have seen that skit.
Haha :D
+1 excellent GIF usage
I guess real-time processing of speech audio = "thinking, FAST" and therefore human brains default to trying to match sensory input with what it already knows (instead of creating a new data record) -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow#Heuristics_and_biases