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Pareidolia
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The word derives from the Greek words pará (παρά, "beside, alongside, instead [of]") and the noun eídōlon (εἴδωλον, "image, form, shape").[5]
The German word Pareidolie was used in articles by Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum—for example in his 1866 paper "Die Sinnesdelierien"[6] ("On Delusion of the Senses"). When Kahlbaum's paper was reviewed the following year (1867) in The Journal of Mental Science, Volume 13, Pareidolie was translated into English as "pareidolia", and noted to be synonymous with the terms "...changing hallucination, partial hallucination, [and] perception of secondary images."[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
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A psychological phenomenon where people see meaningful forms in random patterns, such as seeing faces in clouds, may have stimulated early humans to make cave art.
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-role-pareidolia-early-human-cave.html
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Given that oxytocin has been found to be involved in the perception of faces and facial expressions, her team hypothesized that people going through stages of life where oxytocin levels are elevated, such as during pregnancy or postpartum, may be more susceptible to experiencing pareidolia.
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A hormone (from the Greek participle ὁρμῶν, "setting in motion") is a class of signaling molecules in multicellular organisms that are sent to distant organs by complex biological processes to regulate physiology and behavior.[1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormone
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Certain individuals are born with special sensitivity to flashing lights or contrasting visual patterns, such as stripes, grids and checkerboards. Because of this condition, their brain will produce seizure-like discharges when exposed to this type of visual stimulation.
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https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10116001/1/Novella_thesis.pdf
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MEXICO CITY, MEXICO—Live Science reports that a collection of 15 stone figurines carved in the Mezcala style has been discovered in a stone chest at Templo Mayor, the temple complex at the site of the city of Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec empire. The sculptures vary in size, with the largest standing about 12 inches tall.
The chest also contained two rattlesnake-shaped earrings, more than 180 green stone beads, snails, shells, and marine corals. López Luján suggests that temple priests stored these valuable symbols in the stone case for safekeeping.
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11718-230831-templo-mayor-case
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Notes: Game on...on the radio...Rangers at Angels...top of first...first pitch, double off the base of the wall for Texas...Detmers on mound for Angels...aand an infield single...runners on first and third...oh, Angels then get a double play, but run scores...Rangers 1-Angels 0...one thing get put aside for another, then that for another, pretty soon then batches of things set aside for another batches of things...until, I take a nap, which trumps everything, and things set aside...weak excuse for lack of recent posts...hmmph...Angels could have traded Ohtani, given up on the season, but as it is they set aside those riches...it would have been a blockbuster trade for young players from a contender desperate for Ohtani like player...but nope, kept Ohtani until a tendon tear in his elbow, again, benched him...what with Trout still benched with a tiny bone repair in his wrist, and the other injuries to other Angels, that was it, for Angels' playoff hopes...oh, Drury hits a home run...Angels 3-Rangers 1...games are still major league games, sorta...albeit Angels' roster full of minor league call ups...I have two tickets left, for Friday and Saturday...this is last week of regular season...as for my web archaeological digging, too, but I have a bunch of things, batches, enough to lap over into next season...Agatha Christie was an archaeological buff (too, a neighbor and friend of Robert Graves during WW2-suspect the conversations they must have had!)...aaand this afternoon I saw movie A Haunting in Venice...and awhile back I saw movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter...and during both I was considering that word I keep bumping into, Pareidolia...the seeing faces in clouds thing...I've tried to find synonyms for Pareidolia, and can't find them...there should be a popular word, a slang term even...welp, let me look about again...hallucination?...tripping, flash back...I dunno...the archaeologists, readsaid, have arrived at the thought that the ancients were playing with pareidolia in their art...five days ago news story, and another, and a search up of 'hormones" before...and now the wonder: does art evoke hormones?...of course it does...the "art guild" that made the likes of Moche pottery, and Inca textiles hooks up with the Mesoamericans, the "Americas continuum" of pre-Columbian art up and down the Americas...the cave researchers are trying to recreate the underground theater, the important feature, flickering torchlight...stock and trade of horror movies...flickering light is a problem for epileptics...brb...and epileptics see visions...like, they define the shaman journey, or some such...some hormone?...lol...thinking of snake cult zealots who go into seizures handling snakes, I find that snakes are prone to having seizures-if yours is so see your vet, readsaid...well, I only have a few snake stories, one that frightened me, and another...well, I'll relate that...it was a small colorful banded snake on an Eastern Sierra hike...it isn't that I hate snakes, but I perfectly understand Indiana Jones' phobia...the snake startled me, went its way, and I mine, but for awhile on the trail ahead, every root was moving like a snake!...so , so, I guess fear threw a hormone, or some such, into my visual equilibrium...another thing that does this is lack of sleep while driving...once, the back of an eighteen wheeler became a tunnel-no I didn't crash, but found it curious!...drawing conclusions from insufficient data, is a detective's bane, Agatha often says...and archaeologists' too...collect data, collect data, collect data...and if patterns emerge...is that a something?...I dunno...Agatha in the movie explores just this-Poirot's data collection keeps getting skewed by his own hallucinations...a Pareidolia state brought on by his experiences in combat, along with the horrors of his detective adventures...the characters in the story have the like dilemma, and "triggers", flashing light, sudden noise, just the general atmosphere of a haunted house on Halloween night, enthrall them...the Demeter film is a Dracula tale...the movie, Sign of Dracula, scared me a bunch...still feel most comfortable with blankets around my neck...in movie Haunted, an hallucinogenic honey from a singular flower is a key...that, that's Graves and his hippie toads...and toads gets me to Charlie Chaplin feet!...back in the posts noted...the Chavin/Andean decapitator has his feet turned outwards, like Charlie Chaplin...also like a frog, or toad...pics of Hopi vases I found with frogs, butterflies, and pollywogs...sometime, figures with frog feet...Angels with a home run...Angels 6-Texas 1...trying to nail down Charlie Chaplin feet, I found Charlie Chaplin and Aztec seashells!...and just in the news, found some of those Jade figures...the seashells show up on the sides of Mexican pyramids...for sometime, a workup of the seashells...more runs...Angels 9-Texas 1...bottom of fifth...top of sixth...time to feed the critters...brbk...and a snack for me...hunger is a hormone...satisfaction an illusion...top of ninth...one out...K...Detmers gets a win...oh wait...Texas not done...a home run...down to their final strike...K...and the ball game is over...Angels 9-Rangers 3...put a halo over this one!
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