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by emjoes1 1235 days ago
I have never heard of this. I did not see modern answer for this phenomenon is, do we know?
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pierrebai 1235 days ago
Yes: Pareidolia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
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DonaldFisk 1235 days ago
There's more to it than that. Frost patterns on windows really do resemble real plants such as ferns because both are examples of Iterated Function Systems (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated_function_system).
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emjoes1 1235 days ago
Lol and I thought this was a real phenomenon I have never observed or heard of.
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rubylark 1235 days ago
Also: synchronicity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity

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