Faces in Things (Grilled Jesus Sandwich, etc.)

[Darren Dirt]

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


Haunted kitchen cupboard door


Muffin Dog or Dog Muffin?

[Mr. Analog]

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

[Darren Dirt]

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".



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.


"in Greek, prosopo is face and agnosia means without knowledge" -2006 Wired article

Brad Pitt might even have it.

Prosopagnosia is just one of many "flavors" of 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...

[Thorin]

IF we're talking about movies about medical conditions, I found Adam to be an insightful look into the world of Asperger's / mild ASD.  Heartbreaking, but insightful.

[Darren Dirt]

IF we're talking about movies about medical conditions, I found Adam 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

[Mr. Analog]

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*

[Darren Dirt]

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*

Yes, I have seen that skit.

[Mr. Analog]

Haha

+1 excellent GIF usage

[Darren Dirt]

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