Jun 15, 2008

Smiley

This was found on Mars. Yeah, it's a Smiley face. Actually, that's your damned human brain working a human response to comprehend the image. Your stupid brain thinks that this :) is also a smiley face. It's not. It's a colon and an end parenthesis.

The interesting thing about the human face is that it is a template for communication. You don't have to say anything for people to read your face. The same thing goes for a photograph of a face or a drawing representing a face.

So a representation of the human face exists 'in the realm of ideas' regardless of how it's rendered. For instance - the surface of Mars.

It's not goddamned aliens. Get off your chair.

1 comment:

  1. DUDE.

    God is an alien. And a damned hippie!

    Nice post. Reminds me of the psychological tendency we all have called "closure," like when we see three unconnected lines at conjoining angles and say "ooh..a triangle."

    Nice example of how coincidence does not imply providence.

    Or, as we all know
    CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION.

    Now, if that cute 'droid finds a squiddy image, well, then we all know the true face of god.

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