"Pareidolia Is"

With thanks to Eric Triffin

𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐚: (n.) the instinct to seek familiar forms in disordered images like clouds or constellations; the perception of random stimulus as significant.

Pareidolia is a type of apophenia, seeing patterns in random data...

   “Once in possession of the pattern, the data, then one must bring the tools of science to bear on the data: testing, experimentation, and mathematical analysis!" Sherlock Stones exclaimed. "As Ceremonial Stone Landscape investigators, this is what we must do; we must apply the scientific method to our observations. If, as an expert witness goes into court with only the observation of a pattern, their testimony “I see a pattern” can be refuted by an adverse expert who simply says, "I do not see a pattern”. Our clients deserve and require more than just seeing supposed “shapes in the clouds” – or in this case, "the shapes of the selected and positioned stones.”

“May I suggest, an additional distinguishing feature, sometimes present behind the triangular flat topped boulders, another data point, so to speak?” Dr. Possum replied. “Note the rhomboidal shaped stone that perhaps suggests the vulnerable 7^th Scale of the Great Serpent, sometimes present.”

“There’s hope for you yet,” said Sherlock to his compatriot, lighting his pipe…

https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/search?q=7th+seventh+scale

Apologies to: https://www.edtengineers.com/blog-post/keep-your-head-out-clouds

“Fluid intelligence is the ability to see patterns and solve reasoning problems,”  writes someone from the famous Yale Community College in a fairly recent article here:

https://earthsky.org/human-world/brain-activity-pattern-as-unique-as-fingerprint/

Mr Wikipedia writes, insisting that:  "The concepts of fluid intelligence (g_f) and crystallized intelligence (g_c) were introduced in 1963 by the psychologist Raymond Cattell.^[1][2] According to Cattell's psychometrically-based theory, general intelligence (g) is subdivided into g_f and g_c. Fluid intelligence is the ability to solve novel reasoning problems and is correlated with a number of important skills such as comprehension, problem-solving, and learning.^[3] Crystallized intelligence, on the other hand, involves the ability to deduce secondary relational abstractions by applying previously learned primary relational abstractions.^[4]"

      I just don't know what to think about Mr. Wikipedia sometimes...