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Pareidolia When we see anything with an intricate design, our brain is usually automatically set to recognize familiar patterns, most likely faces or significant figures even when there are none. There is a specific part of the brain called the fusiform gyrus that is in charge of intentionally perceiving faces (among other cool shit like color and word recognition) even where there are none. That’s what causes you to see figures closely resembling us on walls, floors, etc. and a large portion of religious belief turned to divinity to explain for it when in reality it was the flawed human brain trolling us into believing this alternate, less realistic connection to nature.