Aha, now we are getting to the topic of regular and rarefied design.
Apply your design detector to fairy circles for instance.
And pattern recognition is a design inference...
On Nov 2, 2006, at 6:39 AM, Dave Wallace wrote:
> It seems to me that seeing designs in clouds is essentially the
> pattern recognition portion of our brains responding and that is
> quite different from detecting design. If one sees a face in the
> clouds then one is highly likely to think it had random causes,
> however, letters in the sky that make up a sentence or slogan are
> highly likely to be designed and created by a small plane/pilot.
>
> Dave Wallace
>
> Pim van Meurs wrote:
>> Who does not remember watching the clouds pass by and seeing
>> 'designs'.
>
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