RE: Genesis
November 27, 2023 at 2:54 pm
(This post was last modified: November 27, 2023 at 2:57 pm by Bucky Ball.)
(November 26, 2023 at 1:55 pm)brewer Wrote: Seeing patterns and coming to conclusions.
Bible code next?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code
Exactly ... known as apophenia,
ap·o·phe·nia
the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas)
What psychologists call apophenia—the human tendency to see connections and patterns that are not really there—gives rise to conspiracy theories.
Paredolia : the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern
The scientific explanation for some people is pareidolia, or the human ability to see shapes or make pictures out of randomness. Think of the Rorschach inkblot test.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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