Sentences with word «apophenia»
Apophenia is the tendency to see patterns or connections in random or unrelated things. It's our brain's way of trying to make sense of the world around us, even when there may be no actual correlation. So, someone experiencing apophenia might perceive coincidences or find significance in things that are likely just random events. Full definition
In his last exhibition at Pierogi he explored the idea of apophenia, the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data, as well as a link between psychosis and creativity.
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There's actually a psychological term for people like this who believe they can recognize a pattern where there is none — it's called apophenia.
And that leads to your probability argument in which you conflate apophenia with evidence.
This fact has not changed, particularly in the context of ID's modern embrace of anthropocentric apophenia.
We are hungry to intuit serial sequences everywhere, even where there are none — a condition known as apophenia, which is linked to gambling and conspiracy theories.
Paintings that use apophenia (perceiving patterns or connections in meaningless data), as well as material found in the human periphery, acrylic paint, antique text, childhood books, film stills, and random materials from our youth.
Without segue, we love Danah Boyd at apophenia, who «makes connections where none existed».
There's actually a psychological term for people like this who believe they can recognise a pattern where there is none — it's called apophenia.
This installation plays with the idea of apophenia, a phenomenon in which one sees recognizable shapes in repeating patterns.
[1] This fallacy is the philosophical / rhetorical application of the multiple comparisons problem (in statistics) and apophenia (in cognitive psychology).
Non sequitur, apophenia and an argument from ignorance do not make your subjective and hopeful «only explanation» the actual only explanation.
There's actually a psychological term for people like this who believe they can recognize a pattern where there is none — it's called apophenia.
How the individual print looks is; the line, colour and textures of my world that I use to share my apophenia.
The combination of apophenia (the tendency to see patterns in random data), confirmation bias (the tendency to focus on evidence that is in line with our expectations or favoured explanation) and hindsight bias (the tendency to see an event as having been predictable only after it has occurred) can easily lead us to false conclusions,