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	apophenia
		Apophenia is the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena.
		apophenia and creativity may even be seen as two sides of the same coin." Some of the most creative people in the world, then, must be psychoanalysts and therapists who use projective tests like the Rorschach test or who see patterns of child abuse behind every emotional problem.
		It is highly probable that the apparent significance of many unusual experiences and phenomena are due to apophenia, e.g., ghosts and hauntings, EVP, numerology, the Bible code, anomalous cognition, ganzfeld "hits", most forms of divination, the prophecies of Nostradamus, remote viewing, and a host of other paranormal and supernatural experiences and phenomena.
	skepdic.com /apophenia.html (695 words)

	Apophenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.
		In statistics, apophenia would be classed as a Type I error (false alarm).
		Apophenia is often used as an explanation of paranormal and religious claims.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apophenia (222 words)

	Some Thoughts On Apophenia - Topic Powered by eve community
		Apophenia can thus reflect genuine misapprehension, of cause and effect, for example, or it can reflect a slight distortion of the balance between the tendency to seek useful connections between things and the tendency to dismiss useless connections between things.
		Apophenia does not refer to the brain's natural inclination to find patterns but to a condition in which that inclination is exaggerated to an extreme degree leading to dysfunctional reasoning.
		Apophenia is a symptom, a disorder, not a diagnosis.
	williamgibsonboard.com /eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6406046771/m/3596056933/inc/1 (1764 words)

	Occultism and Apophenia
		Taken to its worst extreme, apophenia can be found amongst schizophrenics who believe they see patterns that support their delusions.
		A more specific form of apophenia is pareidolia, which is the perception of significance derived from a vague and random stimulus, such as an image or sound.
		One of the core mechanisms of occultism is the induction of apophenia, which it does via several conceptual models, such as Kaballah and the Tree of Life.
	thelema.ashami.com /?title=occultism-and-apophenia&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 (1809 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Apophenia
		In statistics, apophenia would be classed as a Type I error (false positive, false alarm, caused by an excess in sensitivity).
		Apophenia is often used as an explanation of some paranormal and religious claims.
		In 2006, webcomic author Chris Cracknell drew a short-lived series Apophenia 357, in which each strip is presented without accompanying dialogue; the intent was that the each reader would derive their own storyline based on the artwork alone.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Apophenia (411 words)

	Apophenia: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In statistical hypothesis testing, a type i error consists of rejecting a null hypothesis that is true, in other words finding a result to have statistical...
		Apophenia is often used as an explanation of paranormal Anomalous phenomenon quick summary:
		An anomalous phenomenon is an observed phenomenon for which there is no suitable explanation in the context of a specific body of scientific knowledge, e.g....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ap/apophenia.htm (485 words)

	Apophenia Overview
		Apophenia also allows the user to highlight the prime and composite results of such quadratic equations.
		Apophenia also allows the user to search for and resolve additional underlying patterns in the distribution of the prime numbers by systematically applying a separate offset rotation to successive rings thereby bringing non-consecutive prime numbers into line with one another in various "V", "Y" and, possibly, "X" patterns.
		Apophenia can also output raw data relating to each plot, including the X and Y coordinates of each plotted point, as a text file in.CSV format, (Comma Separated Variables).
	www.apophenia.freeuk.com (441 words)

	What is Apophenia?
		Apophenia can take a wide range of forms, from thinking that the same number turns up too often to be mere coincidence to seeing a man in the moon.
		In some cases, apophenia is used as a criteria for the diagnosis of mental illness, but having apophenia does not necessarily imply that someone is mentally ill; many extremely creative people, for example, have demonstrated apophenia.
		Apophenia is an example of what is known in statistics as a type I error, or a false positive.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-apophenia.htm (436 words)

	Psyberspace: Apophenia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.
		Now that is not apophenia, but in addition to that I saw the word twice in places where I had not searched: this podcast and this entry in John Perry Barlow's blog.
		I am interested in how close the mad version of apophenia is to the sane one.
	www.psybernet.co.nz /weblog/2005/02/apophenia.html (347 words)

	Do all these podcast have some meaning or do we just suffer from apophenia? - Today's Podcast by Scott Brenner.
		Apophenia is a noun describing the false perception of patterns within random or meaningless data.
		Today's word, also a request, is apophenia and none of the mainstream dictionaries defined it.
		We all probably suffer a little Apophenia when we see a duck in the clouds overhead or the Virgin Mary in a piece of toast.
	www.todayspodcast.com /archives/2005/01/do_all_these_po_1.html (317 words)

	bobvan
		Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.
		There is some common ground between apophenia and narrative fallacies such as hindsight bias.
		As pattern recognition may be related to plans, goals, and ideology, and may be a matter of group ideology rather than a matter of solitary delusion, the interpreter attempting to diagnose or identify apophenia may have to face a conflict of interpretations.
	www.bobvan.net /pages/apophenia.html (126 words)

	The Book of THoTH (Leaves of Wisdom) - Apophenia
		Conrad originally described this phenomenon in relation to the distortion of reality present in psychosis, but it has become more widely used to describe this tendency in healthy individuals without necessarily implying the presence of neurological or mental illness.
		Apophenia is often used as an explanation of paranormal and religious claims.
		Since pattern recognition may be related to plans, goals, and ideology, and may be a matter of group ideology rather than a matter of solitary delusion, the interpreter attempting to diagnose or identify apophenia may have to face a conflict of interpretations.
	www.book-of-thoth.com /thebook/index.php/Apophenia (237 words)

	"Apophenia Stories" by Ghastly and the Internet
		These are the stories of Apophenia 357 a comic created by Ghastly but written by the readers.
		Apophenia 357 is drawn from the random blocks of sentance fragments commonly found within SPAM e-mail.
		The unlettered Apophenia 357 comic is presented at http://www.apophenia-prime.com.
	stories.apophenia-prime.com (482 words)

	Stensland Systems: Apophenia
		It doesn't really have anything to do with the stock market or stock market analysis in general, but the general tone of the book hints a few times (and even outright mentions it) at the idea of apophenia.
		There are things that might look really good to us and seem to indicate the way a stock is or will move.
		But it is very much possible that we are just seeing another fine example of apophenia.
	www.stenslandsystems.com /archives/000029.html (537 words)

	Speak Stiltedly and Wear a Yellow Shirt » Blog Archive » Apophenia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Apophenia is the spontaneous perception of connections and
		Fiction is the art of apophenia, especially fanfiction when it makes meaningful connections the original producers neither saw nor dreamt of.
		Related phenomena listed in the Dictionary include Jung’s notion of synchronicity or “meaningful coincidences,” which seem to result from ESP or a sort of low-grade miracle, and pareidolia, the bad habit of seeing faces in potato chips and the Cydonia region of Mars.
	www.ficml.org /jemimap/wordpress/2003/03/09/apophenia (466 words)

	Notes on Apophenia's design
		One motivation for the Apophenia project is that no C library existed on the level of general models and data sets.
		Many coders who know pointers insist that everybody else is too dumb to understand them, but if a user can understand the concept of projecting a data matrix onto an arbitrary basis space, he or she probably has enough grey matter to work out that data and the address of data can be manipulated separately.
		Apophenia is intended to be comparable to existing statistics packages, but without an ad hoc grammar attached.
	avocado.econ.jhu.edu /modeling/apop_notes.html (2183 words)

	Do all these podcast have some meaning or do we just suffer from apophenia? : Today's Podcast By Scott Brenner.
		Apophenia is a noun describing the false perception of patterns within random or meaningless data.
		Today's word, also a request, is apophenia and none of the mainstream dictionaries defined it.
		We all probably suffer a little Apophenia when we see a duck in the clouds overhead or the Virgin Mary in a piece of toast.
	todayspodcast.com /archives/2005/01/do_all_these_po_1.html (254 words)

	languagehat.com: APOPHENIA.
		apophenia and creativity may even be seen as two sides of the same coin."...
		Apophenia suggests the the ability to intuitively wed unrelated phenomena and derive novelty as a result.
		I understand that the marvelous August Strindberg was accused by psychiatrists of being psychotic due to his propensity towards what they termed 'apophenia.' Leave it to a criminal field like psychiatry, with their ECT, lobotomy, 'therapeutic castration' and Prozac to assault any evidence of the mystic or divine as madness.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/001804.php (3362 words)

	Apophenia - Lostpedia
		The mysterious occurrences around the numbers have created a flurry of attempts to mathematically explain the various happenings on the Island.
		Apophenia is the perception of patterns or connections where none exist.
		Most psychologists agree that this condition exists in everyone, to some degree; it is a bias of the human mind.
	lostpedia.com /index.php?title=Apophenia&printable=yes (924 words)

	synchronicity
		What it explains is more simply and elegantly explained by the ability of the human mind to find meaning and significance where there is none (apophenia).
		The concept of synchronicity is but an expression of apophenia.
		According to psychiatrist and author, Anthony Storr, Jung went through a period of mental illness during which he thought he was a prophet with "special insight." Jung referred to his "creative illness" (between 1913-1917) as a voluntary confrontation with the unconscious.
	www.skepdic.com /jung.html (660 words)

	weaverluke: apophenia: a culture of feeds: syndication and youth culture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		weaverluke: apophenia: a culture of feeds: syndication and youth culture
		apophenia: a culture of feeds: syndication and youth culture
		Danah Boyd is on an interesting and, for i-together, highly pertinent tack in this discussion of a culture of feeds: syndication and youth culture.
	www.i-together.net /weaverluke/2004/10/apophenia-culture-of-feeds-syndication.html (228 words)

	:: empire of dirt: this is too cool... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Conspiracy and End Days theorists often suffer from Apophenia and it is also a common symptom of schiziophrenia.
		The pages are then presented without text and it is then up to the reader to create their own coherent continuity based on the pictures.
		When each chapter is concluded I will then allow the readers to submit their own lettered version of what they interpret the story of Apophenia to be.
	johnrickards.blogspot.com /2005/11/this-is-too-cool.html (323 words)

	Apophenia - Lostpedia
		The mysterious occurrences around the numbers have created a flurry of attempts to mathematically explain the various happenings on the Island.
		Apophenia is the perception of patterns, or connections, where in fact none exist.
		Apophenia • Bloopers/Errors • Timeline • Transcripts • Verisimilitude
	www.lostpedia.com /index.php?title=Ptosis'_dog (1892 words)

	apophenia on purevolume™
		and you have yourself a shell-shaped idea of what apophenia is. Live, Seamus Kerley, has magnetism and charisma to spare, the bands intensity and musicianship communicates with audiences.
		Technology places a dream like theme into their music...In this vast country we live in, four people living in condensed towns where the aimless souls do "the drifters dance instigated in them the same sense of alienation, isolation, and asphyxiation.
		By harnessing the power of a new world apophenia uses the internet as a medium and base to connect with each other, their fans, and to spread the word about their new songs and performances.
	www.purevolume.com /apophenia (1127 words)

	Apophenia: Apophenia: Setting up
		To use Apophenia, you will need to have a working C compiler, the GSL (v1.7 or higher) and SQLite installed.
		For those who are new to C, there are some notes on the C page; if you are familiar with the process, see the usage notes for Apophenia itself.
		For example, say that you are running a simulation of two different treatments, or say that two sensors are posting data at regular intervals.
	apophenia.sourceforge.net /doc/setup.html (352 words)

	Financial Sense "Is Gold a Blooming Rose or a Prickly Thorn?" by Douglas V. Gnazzo 06.15.2005
		While reading a very good article the other day, I came across a word I didn’t recognize, and it was such a cool word in a very cool article I thought I would share it.
		In statistics, apophenia would be classed as a Type I error.
		Going back to the original definition, we find the last part reads: “In statistics, apophenia would be classed as a Type I error.
	www.financialsense.com /fsu/editorials/gnazzo/2005/0615.html (1762 words)

	Apophenia & Pareidolia - [tmbchr]™
		I never knew there was a word for this before, but apparently apophenia is “the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena.” Skeptic’s Dictionary has a page dedicated to debunking this type of phenomenon.
		Despite, or perhaps because of, it’s connection to psychosis, apophenia is also understood to be closely tied to creativity as well.
		Of course, the entry on Skeptic’s Dictionary completely glosses over that fact, and instead uses the concept of apophenia as some sort of “proof” that paranormal phenomenon are not real, and are merely connections manufactured by the mind.
	www.timboucher.com /journal/2005/02/23/apophenia-pareidolia (360 words)

	Nodal point - Salon
		As defined by Gibson in "Pattern Recognition," apophenia is "the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things." In other words: Recognizing patterns that aren't actually there.
		Welcome to the world of "Pattern Recognition," where a whole mess of people are suffering from greater or lesser degrees of what might be apophenia, except when it isn't.
		The most obvious impact this has on the novel is that, inevitably, it becomes obsessed with finding meaning and connections in the most significant event thus far in the 21st century -- the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
	www.salon.com /tech/books/2003/02/13/gibson/index.html?x (975 words)

	Purposive Drift: Apophenia
		This is defined as "...the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things." But I do think the word would be more useful if the word 'spontaneous' was dropped from the definition.
		This is where I think the word 'apophenia', meaning "the perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things" could be a useful tool in our box for building patterns.
		Checking for apophenia when are playing the connection game, could be a means of seeing whether what we are building is just wishful thinking or a pattern that conforms to our prejudices or whether it is solid enough as guide for action.
	www.purposivedrift.net /archives/000018.html (322 words)

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