/pær.a ’də .li.ə/ɪ ʊ

The Story and Science of Visual Deception Perception

“And so something which I thought I was seeing with my eyes is in fact grasped solely

by the faculty of judgment which is in my mind.”

—René Descartes

Para - faulty

Eidolon - image

Pareidolia – the perception of concrete images in random or

undefined stimuli

“Humans crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend… But the history of science…teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding.”

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark