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/pær.a ’də .li.ə/ɪ ʊ
The Story and Science of Visual Deception Perception
“And so something which I thought I was seeing with my eyes is in fact grasped solely
by the faculty of judgment which is in my mind.”
—René Descartes
Para - faulty
Eidolon - image
Pareidolia – the perception of concrete images in random or
undefined stimuli
“Humans crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend… But the history of science…teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding.”
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark