http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/03/17/1974-evel-knievel-ben-cooper-halloween-mask-on-mars/ Has a polemic ever run over your memeplex? Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:17:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/03/17/1974-evel-knievel-ben-cooper-halloween-mask-on-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-246 Cryptohedonologist Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:24:10 +0000 http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/03/17/1974-evel-knievel-ben-cooper-halloween-mask-on-mars/#comment-246 Definitely weird. Good stuff, though. The brain can be easily fooled, even when we know we are looking at an illusion. I'll add a little more discussion along these lines above... Definitely weird. Good stuff, though. The brain can be easily fooled, even when we know we are looking at an illusion. I’ll add a little more discussion along these lines above…

]]> http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/03/17/1974-evel-knievel-ben-cooper-halloween-mask-on-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-245 drjohn Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:38:15 +0000 http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/03/17/1974-evel-knievel-ben-cooper-halloween-mask-on-mars/#comment-245 Odd how the human brain works. It tends to see shapes of things and assign familiar meanings to them. Some of it seems to be hardwired too. For instance, show a newborn baby a picture of a frying pan with two eggs and a strip of bacon in the shape of a face, and it will respond to it as if it were a face. No response to some other distribution of the shapes. Weird, huh? Odd how the human brain works. It tends to see shapes of things and assign familiar meanings to them. Some of it seems to be hardwired too. For instance, show a newborn baby a picture of a frying pan with two eggs and a strip of bacon in the shape of a face, and it will respond to it as if it were a face. No response to some other distribution of the shapes. Weird, huh?

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