Should we consider apophenia as a distorting reality or, on the contrary, as an ability to decipher meaningful patterns that surround us?

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Apophenia (Lost Time) by Lensk, released 15 August 2019 1. Interlude(Fragile) 2. Strained 3. Sleep Intake(Heretic) 4. Waves Without Weight 5. Waves Without Weight (Evitceles Remix) 6. Strained (FRKTL Manifold Remix) JWR030 Lensk-Apophenia (Lost Time) August 15, 2019 https://soundcloud.com/anonymouscomplicity https://www.facebook.com/Mesticopl/ https://www.instagram.com/lenskx/ https://www.facebook.com/lenskx/ https://twitter.com/lenskx Remixes by https://soundcloud.com/evitceles https://soundcloud.com/shbadr Artwork by Filip Preis Mastered by SIM

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Remember Eureka! text by “Rickshaw” Profiles by “Apophenia” 1854 is the point of departure for this counterfactual history of the Great Southern Land. Why...

Here’s a cool new word I learned this week – so cool in fact that my spell-check refuses to acknowledge it exists: apophenia. It’s the tendency to see patterns in seemingly random data. And maybe I’m suffering from apophenia, but it feels like every week Humans is examining consciousness from different angles. Season 2’s opener was … >

There are many words to describe both the way we can perceive something, either physically or on a deeper level. Some examples are 'apophenia,' 'clairvoyance,' 'stereognosis,' and 'extrasensory perception.'

PAREIDOLIA n.) the instinct to seek familiar forms in disordered images like clouds or constellations; the perception of random stimulus as significant. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia, seeing patterns in random data. Pareidolia Album: http://goo.gl/NZLp8a

We've obviously seen this kind of thing before, but Philip Karlberg's still-life faces for Pay Ex are still utterly charming. Through the simple arrangement of everyday objects, Philip creates a set of oddly expressive visages which speak volumes about our capacity for apophenia – the willingness to see human characteristics in inanimate objects. Proof that once again if you hire the right kind of creative, there is no such thing as a hack topic or approach.