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September 6th, 2015 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
September 5, 2015
Some of the pictures sent back to earth from the Curiosity rover on Mars have caused quite a stir on social media.
A portion of those believe that these pictures reveal anything from a spoon, to chopsticks, an iguana , and even a woman’s figure .
UFO Sightings Daily, an online publication dedicated to all things alien originated the concept that a clocked woman was caught in pictures standing on the Mars surface.
A website called Unmanned Space Flight has claimed the spoon and chopstick presence on Mars without acknowledging they are looking at foreign rock formations that are understood as strange to the human brain.
However, when it comes to these pictures, what is dismissed and omitted is just how incredible our brain is when trying to decipher images that have no previous reference.
It’s a type of delusion called pareidolia .
Joel Voss, author and neuroscientist for Northwestern University, has studied pareidolia and written several papers on the subject.
And when it comes to analyzing images from Mars, the human brain uses pareidolia to understand exactly what it’s looking at.
The fact that we see dragons in clouds or faces in rock formations is proof of this mental slight-of-hand.
Because of the deceptive nature of pareidolia, a chicken nugget allegedly in the shape of former President George Washington sold on Ebay for $8,110 in 2012.
Going back to 2009, a woman claimed that there was a depiction of Jesus’ fact on the underside of a Marmite lid. Interestingly, it was the Caucasian, blue-eyed Jesus promoted by the Church and not an actual resemblance of a Middle Eastern man which is how Jesus actually would have appeared.
Four years ago, Tumblr posted a picture of a house that is said to resemble Adolf Hitler; complete with his trademark mustache.
And just 10 years prior, 20,000 Christians paid their respects to a chapatti with a supposed Christ-like image burned into it.
Diane Duyser made headlines in 1994 for seeing the Virgin Mary (conveniently as depicted by the Church) on a grilled cheese sandwich.
Voss explained that when we look at an object, our brain fires off neurons that connect information previously stored in order to assess what the object is.
Our brains treat each image we see as if it were “meaningful objects” even though it is just a collection of light patterns taken in by the retina.
Because of this, if the object looks similar to an object previously viewed, the brain may attach incorrect information to that object and the viewer will see something that is not there.
And when it comes to pictures from the Curiosity rover, this phenomenon goes into hyper-active to make sense of random areas that appear to contain meaningful objects which are delusions created by the observer’s brain.
To further explain pareidolia, Christopher French, member of the British Psychological Society (BPS), added that we have evolved neurologically to be biased when looking at strange images.
French said: “A classic example is the Stone Age guy standing there, scratching his beard, wondering whether that rustling in the bushes really is a saber-toothed tiger. You’re much more likely to survive if you assume it’s a saber-toothed tiger and get the hell out of there – otherwise you may end up as lunch.”
But pareidolia can also be a product of personal expectation; especially when seeing images in objects that do not really exist.
Bruce Hood, author of books on pareidolia, maintains that the self-illusionary abilities inherent to humans often formulate in the mind and is “very difficult to unthank them”.
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