What is it with people seeing Jesus everywhere.



Don't get too excited Monk...

I think our brains fill in the gaps and see facial patterns when there is no face.

have you ever looked at a marble floor/wall and see faces everywhere.

Bobby. wrote on Mar 18^th, 2018 at 8:41pm:


Seeing christ images is blasphemy?

Super Nova wrote on Mar 18^th, 2018 at 8:42pm:



Associating Christ with a dog's bum or a piece of toast.

The Spanish Inquisition would have thought
it was a very serious matter.

Seeing Jesus in toast: Neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia

Abstract
Face pareidolia is the illusory perception of non-existent faces. The present study, for the first time, contrasted behavioral and neural responses of face pareidolia with those of letter pareidolia to explore face-specific behavioral and neural responses during illusory face processing. Participants were shown pure-noise images but were led to believe that 50% of them contained either faces or letters; they reported seeing faces or letters illusorily 34% and 38% of the time, respectively. The right fusiform face area (rFFA) showed a specific response when participants “saw” faces as opposed to letters in the pure-noise images. Behavioral responses during face pareidolia produced a classification image (CI) that resembled a face, whereas those during letter pareidolia produced a CI that was letter-like. Further, the extent to which such behavioral CIs resembled faces was directly related to the level of face-specific activations in the rFFA. This finding suggests that the rFFA plays a specific role not only in processing of real faces but also in illusory face perception, perhaps serving to facilitate the interaction between bottom-up information from the primary visual cortex and top-down signals from the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Whole brain analyses revealed a network specialized in face pareidolia, including both the frontal and occipitotemporal regions. Our findings suggest that human face processing has a strong top-down component whereby sensory input with even the slightest suggestion of a face can result in the interpretation of a face.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945214000288

Super Nova wrote on Mar 18^th, 2018 at 8:54pm:







Amazing - I saw Jesus on the wall.

I have to tell master Light.

Jovial Monk wrote on Apr 6^th, 2018 at 7:35pm:

You may want to reword that,monk.
While I am a confirmed atheist and  agree with the line that Jesus CHRIST probably never existed It is a fact other people called Jesus have lived. It sounds pedantic doesn’t it? But you would be used to seeing the pedantic rants of an arrogant  F...wit.

Jovial Monk wrote on Apr 6^th, 2018 at 7:35pm:




Blasphemy - punishable by burning at the stake.

Bobby. wrote on Apr 6^th, 2018 at 7:55pm:


Or banishment to a forum with 3 posters 

Gordon wrote on Apr 6^th, 2018 at 10:21pm:

He has already suffered that indignity.

Super Nova wrote on Mar 18^th, 2018 at 8:38pm:


Exactly. Our brains are hard wired to see faces. Who can forget the infamous "face on Mars" which lead a lot of fringe people to believe that it was evidence of a martian civilisation. (subsequent photos of the area showed it was a trick of the light (no pun intended))



Our brains are made to find faces. In fact, they're so good at picking out human-like mugs we sometimes see them in a jumble of rocks, a bilious cloud of volcanic ash or some craters on the Moon.

But another amazing thing about our brain is that we're never actually fooled into thinking it's a real person looking back at us. We might do a second take, but most normal brains can tell the difference between a man and the Moon.

https://www.wired.com/2012/01/brain-face-recognition/

Jasin wrote on Apr 15^th, 2018 at 8:51pm:


That is funny.