Can you see an human feature hidden in the picture? The innate human tendency to impose a pattern on random or ambiguous shapes is a psychic phenomenon called "pareidolia". To identify an object, our brain matches what we see against our stored knowledge, experiences and, sometimes, expectations. This is why we can distinguish a strange face under the Eiffel tower.

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