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Title: Faces in Things (Grilled Jesus Sandwich, etc.)
Post by: Darren Dirt on May 07, 2014, 08:51:10 AM
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)
Title: Re: Faces in Things (Grilled Jesus Sandwich, etc.)
Post by: 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
Title: Re: Faces in Things (Grilled Jesus Sandwich, etc.)
Post by: Darren Dirt on May 07, 2014, 11:43:33 AM
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...
Title: Re: Faces in Things (Grilled Jesus Sandwich, etc.)
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Faces in Things (Grilled Jesus Sandwich, etc.)
Post by: Darren Dirt on May 07, 2014, 01:32:20 PM
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

Title: Re: Faces in Things (Grilled Jesus Sandwich, etc.)
Post by: 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*
Title: Re: Faces in Things (Grilled Jesus Sandwich, etc.)
Post by: Darren Dirt on May 07, 2014, 02:10:24 PM
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.
Title: Re: Faces in Things (Grilled Jesus Sandwich, etc.)
Post by: Mr. Analog on May 07, 2014, 02:15:49 PM
Haha :D

+1 excellent GIF usage
Title: Re: Faces in Things (Grilled Jesus Sandwich, etc.)
Post by: Darren Dirt on May 08, 2014, 01:19:51 AM
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