Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia.
People see a face of the Man in the Moon in the random placement of craters.
I'm not saying angels don't exist, but Pareidolia is a known phenomenon among humans.
Close...but not quite. Anthropomorphism is attributing human traits (behaviors) to non-human entities, like dogs, cats, or cars. Accuracy in word use is important.
Close...but not quite. Accuracy in word use is important.
"Anthropomorphism, the interpretation of nonhuman things or events in terms of human characteristics, as when one senses malice in a computer or hears human voices in the wind. Derived from the Greek... the term was first used to refer to the attribution of human physical or mental features to deities."
Right, but the accurate word for seeing human faces or forms in random images is correctly called Pareidolia. Not traits, but faces and forms. Quite different from attributing behaviors or traits to inanimate objects or non-human species.
"My dog is smiling".... nope, he may be barring his teeth in anger. Anthropomorphism.
Pareidolia
Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia.
People see a face of the Man in the Moon in the random placement of craters.
I'm not saying angels don't exist, but Pareidolia is a known phenomenon among humans.
I'm ok with cloud angel pareidolia but I do have trouble with Jesus or Mary on a piece of sesame toast.
You should have seen my Cappuccino foam this morning
Anthropomorphism
Close...but not quite. Anthropomorphism is attributing human traits (behaviors) to non-human entities, like dogs, cats, or cars. Accuracy in word use is important.
"Anthropomorphism, the interpretation of nonhuman things or events in terms of human characteristics, as when one senses malice in a computer or hears human voices in the wind. Derived from the Greek... the term was first used to refer to the attribution of human physical or mental features to deities."
https://www.britannica.com/topic/anthropomorphism
Right, but the accurate word for seeing human faces or forms in random images is correctly called Pareidolia. Not traits, but faces and forms. Quite different from attributing behaviors or traits to inanimate objects or non-human species.
"My dog is smiling".... nope, he may be barring his teeth in anger. Anthropomorphism.
"I see the Man in the Moon." nope, Pareidolia.