Pareidolia has been attributed to the human tendency to seek out “meaning” even in the chaotic or random. You glimpse a random cloud formation or a movement of leaves and the mind “fills in the blanks” to make a mental image of something familiar. Carl Jung did not believe or disbelieve in the reality of what we’ve come to call UFOs, but he thought that the majority of claimed sightings were instances of pareidolia. You see something in the sky and you can’t really make out what it is, but the idea of alien craft is all over the zeitgeist, so it’s not unusual at all if that’s what you “see”.
Otherhandwise, as regards humans as meaning-making animals,John Powell has written…
We try to make sense out of everything, including music. We find it pleasant if our expectations are frustrated occasionally, but we don’t expect to be wildly donkey, like the way you didn’t expect the word donkey just then.
Please don’t take me more seriously than I take myself which is not very.
Pareidolia has been attributed to the human tendency to seek out “meaning” even in the chaotic or random. You glimpse a random cloud formation or a movement of leaves and the mind “fills in the blanks” to make a mental image of something familiar. Carl Jung did not believe or disbelieve in the reality of what we’ve come to call UFOs, but he thought that the majority of claimed sightings were instances of pareidolia. You see something in the sky and you can’t really make out what it is, but the idea of alien craft is all over the zeitgeist, so it’s not unusual at all if that’s what you “see”.
Otherhandwise, as regards humans as meaning-making animals,John Powell has written…
We try to make sense out of everything, including music. We find it pleasant if our expectations are frustrated occasionally, but we don’t expect to be wildly donkey, like the way you didn’t expect the word donkey just then.
Please don’t take me more seriously than I take myself which is not very.