tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9073977781346935868.post5254279475548519001..comments2013-04-11T17:06:33.330-07:00Comments on Voynich News: Voynich word of the day: pareidoliaNick Pellinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03444960930450112194noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9073977781346935868.post-48798681589631910642008-06-24T07:44:00.000-07:002008-06-24T07:44:00.000-07:00Apophenia reminds me of the Kuleshov effect, an ex...Apophenia reminds me of the Kuleshov effect, an expriament in film editing. To swipe from Wikipedia, <I>"Kuleshov edited together a short film in which a shot of (an) expressionless face was alternated with various other shots (a plate of soup, a girl, an old woman's coffin) . . . the audience "raved about the acting.... the heavy pensiveness of his mood over the forgotten soup, were touched and moved by the deep sorrow with which he looked on the dead woman, and admired the light, happy smile with which he surveyed the girl at play. But we knew that in all three cases the face was exactly the same." <BR/><BR/>The implication is that viewers brought their own emotional reactions to this sequence of images, and then moreover attributed those reactions to the actor, investing his impassive face with their own feelings.<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>Certainly anyone who's spent time and effort to decrypt the Voynich Manuscript is going to have a deep personal investment in it, and that would surely color their perception of what they beleive they see in it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com