Tag: pareidolia
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Seeing Things
Doug Skinner talks about Pareidolia at The Ullage Group: We have a remarkable ability to see patterns where there are none, to see pictures in clouds, smoke, and rocks. We’re particularly prone to see faces, perhaps because facial recognition is such an important survival skill . . . skills that will increase our enjoyment […]
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Seeing Things! Strindberg and Kittelsen
Alchemy, schizophrenia, sinister wizardry, religious fanaticism, and even a knowing wink of humor, The Inferno, by writer August Strindberg (1849-1912), is an early example of the “unreliable narrator” literary device, in which the reader learns that the storyteller is seeing things from a distorted perspective. There is some disagreement as to how much of The […]