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Human neurology is optimized to see and recognize faces, so of course anything facelike will look like a face. Faces in clouds, faces in the uneven paint on dr
by JJMcJ 6y ago
Human neurology is optimized to see and recognize faces, so of course anything facelike will look like a face. Faces in clouds, faces in the uneven paint on drywall, the Man In The Moon.
- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoI'm beginning to suspect human culture is optimised to see aliens, so anything potentially alien-like will be labelled "aliens." Real aliens stand a good chance of being unimaginably, perhaps even invisibly, alien. What are the odds that in a galaxy that is billions of years old, first contact will be an encounter with a contemporary-ish technology straight out of a 20th century science fiction novel?