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rbord
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atlanta
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Oct 11, 2015 - 10:12am PT
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Thanks for the thread and posts!
Interesting article at http://nymag.com/2015/07/neurotic-people-see-faces-in-things.html
For me, it's interesting in the way that our brains are adapted to form interpretations or beliefs that are not true, and how and why that happens. In the case of pareidolia, I think that humans have evolved psychological processes that favor our seeing faces in things as defense against hidden dangers - it's part of our advanced skills at agency detection. In the balance of false positives versus false negatives, the cost of a false negative (not seeing a potentially hostile face in nature, eg a predator or enemy) outweighed the cost of the false positive of seeing a face that's not there (praise Jesus!) to our evolutionary ancestors. Having an overactive agency detector improved our ancestor's fitness and was evolutionarily advantageous, so we find ourselves today with an evolved psychological mechanism to see faces where they don't exist.
We humans have evolved psychological processes that favor us forming false beliefs in particular ways, like this. Well no, this is the only one, dammit! :-) Or maybe not ...
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Oct 11, 2015 - 02:10pm PT
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I hear an old Italian farmer was excommunicated when he claimed to have seen Jesus' face in a cow pie.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Oct 11, 2015 - 05:55pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 12, 2015 - 07:12pm PT
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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Oct 24, 2015 - 06:34pm PT
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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At the Ent convention.
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Now bare with me
here we have two or three 'faces' at least. . .
One on the left is the kind of hard to define random yellowish, eyes high up. An
Un-consolidated 'nose, and lower a big smile in the same vien as th 'eyes'
And more 'obvious in the center of the snap in profile up high(might be stretching)
Then to the right a bit, over past the 'cleaner' whiteish Rock, left of the cracks of
The climb ( so, between Pete's spare rib on the left &Lake View on the right )
between the white er cleaner climbs, in the alcove, the very dark rock,
below the top capping overhangs,
is a smiling 'face' looking slightly downward,
then in profile with the cracks of Lake View forming the 'head' is looking
Right,
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Go ahead
See if you see
a 'face' or two
with a scar across the right 'eye' & for-head
right of the green 'alien'
Or
Using the scared eye as a mouth in profile. . . .
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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I see faces everywhere a frowning one above the boltz & And because it is now a bolted top rope for wealthy guided climber-types, and a fixed piece in-situ, The 'biner is the eye. . (To leave anything hanging in plain view on the Hotel side of the cliff was once considered very bad, the worst form),
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Here is More of a climb that 'Talks' to many of us ~FOOPS~
Another face other than the orange one;
Click to enlarge and the face is ( just below the top center/left in white ) sneering,
Insulted , no doubt, for having been so blatantly Monetized.
Click to enlarge and the face is ( just below the top in white. Looking left with a sneer )
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jan 11, 2016 - 03:30am PT
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If you have the sight for these things then there are 'faces' all over this picture.
I counted 7 (at least)
 the one I like best is the small grey 'face' just above the low overhang looking straight Out. .
Then to the ones - the faces that face each other, in profile. . .
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The Sleeping Cookie Monster , & past that, the guy in the green recess. . .
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