Apophenia /æpoʊˈfiːniə/ is the human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns within random data. A German scientist named Klaus Conrad coined apophanie (from the Greek apo, away, and phaenein, to show) in 1958. It is a Phenomena in which unrelated things are imagined by the obsever to be related. The relation beteen Apophenia and Pareidolia.
Apophenia is the the tendency to see patterns that do not actually exist. It is the unmotivated seeing of connections accompanied by a specific experience of an meaningfulness, while the misperception of patterns in random data is called pareidolia, where a common human experience is to perceive faces in inanimate objects. Definations of each one may be stated differentially yet the essence and the substance of the fundamental concepts is same. There are several reasons of these phenomena and one of them is the human expectation. Pareidolia can also be a product of people's expectations, says neuroscientist Sophie Scott, of University College London. The faces , writings o appeared on different things sometime heavely bodies are used by some Muslims for Islam and by some Anti Islamist against Islam. Islam does not support these type of Pareidolia and Apophenia. These is no proof From Qur'a:n and Correct 'Ah:adith: in support of thse two Phenomena. YET PEOPLE ARE STILL TRYING TO USE THEM 1] THE FOLLOWING CASE OF PAREIDOLIA IS MISUSED BY ANTI ISLAMISTS AGAINST ISLAM. THEY CLAIM THE FACE OF BEAST ON H:AJR ASVAD
NA"UDHUBILLAH 2]FACE OF A HERETIC AS ACCORDING TO SOME PAKISTANIS
3]NOUN OF SAIYIDUNA ALI RD: ON MOON IS ALLEGED BY SOME EXTREMISTS
4]NOUN OF SAIYIDUNA HUSAIN RD: ON MOON IS ALLEGED BY SOME EXTREMISTS
5] A CLASSICAL EXAMPLE
6] RABIT ON MOON
7] FACE ON EAR OF AN ELEPHAT
6] AN OTHER EXAMPLE
7] PAREIDOLIA OF IESUS ON A PICTURE
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