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I see faces in random objects — wood grain, clouds, toast, car headlights

This is called pareidolia — the brain's hardwired pattern-recognition system seeing faces in ambiguous visual noise. Human brains are so specialised for face-detection that they generate false positives constantly. The cost of missing a face is evolutionarily higher than seeing a false one.

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NASA images from Mars regularly show geological formations that resemble faces and cities — not because of Mars, but because human brains are pattern-matching machines operating on ambiguous data from 225 million kilometres away.

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