Talk:Pareidolia
There is a techinical term for specifically seeing faces in everything. is that the same as pareidolia? or is it a different term? and either way, if we find the term, it should be included.
En attendant Godot 17:52, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
- Not sure. Will go and kiss Google's ass for a minute. ADK...I'll annihilate your deviant! 18:08, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
- Not that I can tell. See the Wikipedia article on Face perception. but generally it's all pareidolia. ADK...I'll reward your wizard! 18:15, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks. it's still amazing to me that the brain will necessarily make two dots and a line under them always appear as a face. the "meme" page linked is a riot, but you can see these emotions in sinks, cups, fruit... even though there is no emotion in a sink. maybe in a fruit.
En attendant Godot 18:19, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
- This one is my favourite as you can see even the ship is shocked and embarrassed by the movie. ADK...I'll negate your pool table! 11:06, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
- Birds are pretty good for this. My favorites are the shit-eating grin birds and birds flipping the bird. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 03:56, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
- I'm immediately reminded of Smug Kookaburras. There's a smug Dawkins lookalike on there somewhere. ADK...I'll duel your alcohol! 14:03, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
- Birds are pretty good for this. My favorites are the shit-eating grin birds and birds flipping the bird. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 03:56, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
- This one is my favourite as you can see even the ship is shocked and embarrassed by the movie. ADK...I'll negate your pool table! 11:06, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks. it's still amazing to me that the brain will necessarily make two dots and a line under them always appear as a face. the "meme" page linked is a riot, but you can see these emotions in sinks, cups, fruit... even though there is no emotion in a sink. maybe in a fruit.
- Not that I can tell. See the Wikipedia article on Face perception. but generally it's all pareidolia. ADK...I'll reward your wizard! 18:15, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
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[edit] Audio pareidolia
I swear i'm hearing non distinct voices chattering when there is cacophony, as if there are people in another room. I also "hear" English words, when listening to chaotic or frenetic conversations of people who are speaking languages i do not know. is this the same phenomena?
En attendant Godot 03:11, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
- Could be. I've heard similar things in busy polyglot environments. Speech and electrical atmospheric noise have enough differences that they could be processed in different parts of the brain. I do not know, but I suspect one is more likely to project some meaning onto strange speech than onto faint imagined beeps. Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 03:19, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
- I imagine it's exactly the same thing at play. You can very easily be alerted if someone says something important to you in a crowd, the usual example is your own name (visually analogues of this being familiar faces, letters or words). Your brain constantly cross-references sensory input with what it knows and expects to be important. It discards the unimportant stuff. "Hearing things" is undoubtedly a side-effect of this as it tries to compare the noise with existing phenomena and generates false positives. ADK...I'll refill your fiddle! 15:37, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, this is basically how backmasking works. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 18:43, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
- Paul is dead.
GodotThe Peyote God awaits 16:49, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
- I think that one is just reading too much into things. ADK...I'll defenestrate your aviator! 18:05, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
- LOL - goo goo ga juoo, goo goo goo.
GodotThe Peyote God awaits 18:06, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
- LOL - goo goo ga juoo, goo goo goo.
- I think that one is just reading too much into things. ADK...I'll defenestrate your aviator! 18:05, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
- Paul is dead.
- Yeah, this is basically how backmasking works. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 18:43, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
- I imagine it's exactly the same thing at play. You can very easily be alerted if someone says something important to you in a crowd, the usual example is your own name (visually analogues of this being familiar faces, letters or words). Your brain constantly cross-references sensory input with what it knows and expects to be important. It discards the unimportant stuff. "Hearing things" is undoubtedly a side-effect of this as it tries to compare the noise with existing phenomena and generates false positives. ADK...I'll refill your fiddle! 15:37, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
[edit] To whoever added the Big Bang Theory joke
You are awesome. Wehpudicabok (talk) 08:07, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
[edit] Bayes' Theorem
Is the listed version of Bayes' theorem a correct alternative? It appears to be missing a few terms.. — Unsigned, by: 169.244.25.226 / talk / contribs
- If you're talking about how you could expand the denominator into a summation, then that's not missing terms, that is just a different way to write the same thing. Nullahnung (talk) 19:05, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
- p(B) == p(B|A) * p(A) + p(B|~A) * p(~A)? — Unsigned, by: 169.244.25.226 / talk / contribs
- Ah... yeah it does doesn't it. Is the form I was thinking of usually used when you know the consequent probability given either A or not A, and the listed version when you have two priors and one consequent? — Unsigned, by: 169.244.25.226 / talk / contribs
- They are mathematically the same thing, so ... just switch between them at your convenience I guess. Nullahnung (talk) 20:39, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
- I think I added that section a while ago. I'm no longer that happy with it... might just kill it.
pathetic 15:51, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
- I think I added that section a while ago. I'm no longer that happy with it... might just kill it.
- They are mathematically the same thing, so ... just switch between them at your convenience I guess. Nullahnung (talk) 20:39, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
- Ah... yeah it does doesn't it. Is the form I was thinking of usually used when you know the consequent probability given either A or not A, and the listed version when you have two priors and one consequent? — Unsigned, by: 169.244.25.226 / talk / contribs
- p(B) == p(B|A) * p(A) + p(B|~A) * p(~A)? — Unsigned, by: 169.244.25.226 / talk / contribs
[edit] Critters on the underground
Does [1] fit in here? 82.44.143.26 (talk) 15:00, 18 July 2014 (UTC)