It's crazy how arthropods evolved faces with the same two-eyes-and-a-mouth pattern as ours completely independently from us. That certainly made things easier for our brains.
You only need 1 mouth. You only need 2 sided symmetry for binocular vision. The eyes are on "top" because it's the position that lets you look at stuff without exposing more than the minimum of yourself. It's not crazy at all. If there's anything you can expect about alien life, it's probably that they will have 1 mouth.
Or see someone out of context and can’t remember what you know them from. I once saw the woman that worked at the baker’s with her children. I didn’t have a clue where I’d seen her before until the next time I bought bread.
Visual recognition evolved millions of years earlier than speech. Language as we know it is relatively new, so it make sense that we are able to remember something by seeing it rather than by what we name it.
Interesting you mentioned autism; my daughter has level 2 autism and struggles processing faces in several ways, including recognizing people she knows if they change their hair, or very sad/crying. Facemasks were impossibly difficult for her - she no longer saw a face when someone had a mask. Even if I put one on while she watched, she would scream because she no longer knew who I was. We stayed home a lot during pandemic. I have learned so much about how brains work whilst raising her and experiencing how her brain works differently.
Autist here. The Clark Kent phenomenon is real. Back when I was 15 I moved into a new house, and the neighbor saw I played guitar. He let me borrow a Joe Satriani (famous guitarist) CD since I hadn't heard of him at the time. I went inside, ripped the CD to my PC, then went back out to return the CD to my neighbor. There was a guy in sunglasses cleaning out his car. I said to him, "Hey, the guy who was just here let me borrow this CD. Do you know where he went?" He responded "Yeah! That was me!" idk about levels of Autism since I was diagnosed when that wasn't a thing, but I hope your daughter finds the humor in these interactions that I have. They are honestly hilarious to me.
a few years ago someone told me that children are more likely to cross a road when a friendly looking car is approaching bc they assume the car would stop to let them through whereas they would wait if an unfriendly looking car is approaching. idk if there was ever a study on this specific subject or if its just anecdotal evidence but it does make sense
Hmm, Interesting. The Ferrari 550 has a pretty regular grille, but the facelift version, the 575 has what people call a "gaping mouth" grille. A small change but now it looks like a face with an agape mouth.
Does that mean when I willfully choose to recognize two dots and a line as a face, then the component parts, then a face again, I am consciously and intentionally directing that data to different geographic regions of my brain?! "Send those signals HERE. Now THERE! Now back again HERE!" That's kinda awesome!
actually, both your basic visual cortex and fusiform face area of the brain are lighting up at the same time, there's another religion in your brain that picks which stream of signals gets prioritized over the other.
@@inkbunnybunny It's more likely that your brain is holding both concepts in your working memory at the same time. Although I have to say, understanding how the brain works is a work in progress, so we don't know everything about it just yet.
06:17. Interestingly, there are many videos around showing reactions of babies to bearded dads who had just shaved their beards. The unmistakable reactions of "who is this dude?" suggest that very early on humans notice facial features.
There is also a condition where u see faces in stuff waayyy more often than other people. I suffer from it and see faces literally EVERYWHERE. even when other people would say they dont see it, it is clear as day to me.
Pareidolia is one of the funniest tricks our brains play on us, honestly. I adore that kind of silly meme where there's a "shocked outlet" or an angry onion. (Obviously the punniest ones are my favorites!)
I always saw faces in cars: some have happy faces, and some had the "angry/tough" face. My first car, a 1989 Mercury Grand Marquis, was a fine example of the tough/angry face.
I love the human brain. Such a wonderful demonstration of how capable we are of doing great things. We are doing it an incredible disservice in a lot of ways.
I have a lot of trouble remembering faces and names. Even if I've known someone for years, if I run into them in the grocery store, I'll draw a complete blank on who they are. Social situations get extremely stressful for me because I'm constantly worried that I'll introduce myself to someone I've known for years or will have to talk to someone who recognizes me, but whom I don't recognize. I've become very good at faking recognition, but inside I'm always in panic mode trying to remember who this person is that knows me.
I have the same thing. I have to explain myself all the time that it’s not bc I’m rude or that person wasn’t important to me. I just don’t remember faces.
I remember seeing something about this before. Not seeing faces where there are faces (i.e. false negatives) are WAAAY more detrimental to us as a species than seeing faces where there aren't any (false positives).
SERIOUS QUESTION: is there a similar process in the brain for seeing phallic shapes everywhere -- dried gourds, lattice work on bridges, old trees, fur patterns? And the same question for female parts, above and below. (insert favorite face emoji here for watching to end)
The heikegani crab in Japan has a carapace that looks like a human face. Consequently, Japanese fishing crews tend to throw them back, allowing them to live and prosper whereas those crabs without a face are often doomed. (Crabs without a face-isn't that a Billy Idol song?)
Fun facts, it does this for so many other things. Danger Noodles and other creepy stuff, even Nudity! Some Blind people even respond to emotional expressions on faces that they can't consciously see because that early processing is still working.
I really like your channel, and your face. :) But what I really like is following along as you explain interesting things in that soothing, compelling manner you have.
mojang's devs used this phenomenon when making the observer redstone block! basically, theres a side on the block that detects block updates. players were getting confused as to which side of the block was the detecting side, so the devs put a face-like marking on that side of the block to make it easy for players. @@callyral
And Oliver Hanson, you were the best boy, as my Argos was. I will ever keep this pain of losing him to remind me when I'm at my lowest, why I do all the things I do. He taught me so much that even after all these years I still miss him, and feel the need to tell anyone who lost such a dear friend, that their company will never be lost because they made us who we are. They will forever live in every story we tell about them and every teaching we pass through.
I'm now working on a series photographs of faces in tree trunks. I love pareidolia! And I've seen more than faces. Like these two trees that looked like they were a couple dancing! That's a fairly new project of mine, only a few months old, and I wonder where that will take me. I can already tell my brain is even more responsive to pareidolia than it was when I started, so I'm looking forward to seeing where that will take me.
When I was a kid my grandparents had some classic furniture with ornaments that looked like faces. Those things freaked me out and I never wanted to be left alone around those. Amazing how our brain works!
Love the channel Joe, keep it up! by the way, I think you really should update your Ultron video. So much as happened with AI since then. Also favorite face😏
Its amazing that such a common yet simple illusion that most brains make are still yet to be fully understood by even the best scientists and researchers :3
7:23 probably not i definitly have the opposite i see faces everywhere i look and i cant stop seeing faces and i can tell the difference between two dogs of the same breed ive never seen before
Our ability to recognize faces so quickly is why horror movies use faces for jump-scares. We see the face and react to the expression faster than we can even consciously process it.
I'm watching this at 50% playback speed and Joe sounds like a drunk guy who just had a MASSIVE revelation about our meat suit driver. It's hilarious :D
Our brains are wired up to recognise patterns and sometimes it gets tricked and you see something that may not be exactly what you think you are looking at
It's more our perception, and interpretation, of data/visual stimulus. The brain is more the physical hardware, your thoughts are where faces come to life.
As a kid i had a dresser with brass handles that looked like creepy smiling faces. I could see it from the bottom of the stairs when i'd go to bed every night. Scared the crap out of me.
Butterflies worked out "faces" on their wings a long time ago. It's not a new thing. Learning about dogs having the ability to move their eyebrows and wolves not having it is pretty cool.
Kind of unrelated to this video, but a similar phenomenon that scares the crap out of me is when I "zone out" and think about stuff, then once I get to some random visual image in my head I snap out back into reality, seeing the precise image I last saw in the shape and texture of some random object I was looking at but not paying attention to while I was thinking in my head. Like I am in the bathroom for example thinking about things then I randomly see the shape of an animal or some inanimate object in the texture and contrast of the tile. The human brain is strange I tell you. PS: It just came to me that I sound like a crackhead to anyone with aphantasia who reads this lol
Years ago, my father owned one of the caravans at a camping site near a dam. It was about an 80 metre hike to the toilets, and there was this one tree that looked like E.T.'s face.
The reason the visual cortex is in the rear of the brain is because the rear contains the more archaic structures. They bits that keep us alive and experience the world.
What's the weirdest face illusion you've ever seen?
"Face " in reflection on the microwave window... scared the crap out of me
But did we see them prior to mirrors?
me every time a jeep is behind me: "man that jeep looks angry, i need to speed up or move over" lol
FACE!
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Seeing faces everywhere is one thing.. but not seeing one where you expect one is WAAAAY more upsetting.
stop being everywhere
is this is the reason why some people are terrified of mannequins
She'll come back bro
@@78town Scared the cat laughing at that one.. well played.
😂😂@@78town
Disney has trained me to see a hidden Mickey in three circles too
Water molecule...
So sorry for your loss, Joe. He lived a good, long life. You made him a happy pup. 🫂
It's crazy how arthropods evolved faces with the same two-eyes-and-a-mouth pattern as ours completely independently from us. That certainly made things easier for our brains.
Are you high?
You only need 1 mouth. You only need 2 sided symmetry for binocular vision. The eyes are on "top" because it's the position that lets you look at stuff without exposing more than the minimum of yourself. It's not crazy at all.
If there's anything you can expect about alien life, it's probably that they will have 1 mouth.
Yes! I was thinking about bees and praying Mantis 😸 Their body plan is too different but they converged anyway!
What about when we can't forget a face but are unable to remember their name? 9/10 times
I have that issue.
I can remember when I last saw someone, and often what we talked about, but the name comes up blank.
Or see someone out of context and can’t remember what you know them from.
I once saw the woman that worked at the baker’s with her children. I didn’t have a clue where I’d seen her before until the next time I bought bread.
Visual recognition evolved millions of years earlier than speech. Language as we know it is relatively new, so it make sense that we are able to remember something by seeing it rather than by what we name it.
I'm face blind and have the exact opposite problem. I have asked people if they've seen themselves 😅
I have a hard time remembering faces
Interesting you mentioned autism; my daughter has level 2 autism and struggles processing faces in several ways, including recognizing people she knows if they change their hair, or very sad/crying. Facemasks were impossibly difficult for her - she no longer saw a face when someone had a mask. Even if I put one on while she watched, she would scream because she no longer knew who I was. We stayed home a lot during pandemic. I have learned so much about how brains work whilst raising her and experiencing how her brain works differently.
Autist here. The Clark Kent phenomenon is real.
Back when I was 15 I moved into a new house, and the neighbor saw I played guitar. He let me borrow a Joe Satriani (famous guitarist) CD since I hadn't heard of him at the time.
I went inside, ripped the CD to my PC, then went back out to return the CD to my neighbor. There was a guy in sunglasses cleaning out his car. I said to him, "Hey, the guy who was just here let me borrow this CD. Do you know where he went?"
He responded "Yeah! That was me!"
idk about levels of Autism since I was diagnosed when that wasn't a thing, but I hope your daughter finds the humor in these interactions that I have. They are honestly hilarious to me.
a few years ago someone told me that children are more likely to cross a road when a friendly looking car is approaching bc they assume the car would stop to let them through whereas they would wait if an unfriendly looking car is approaching. idk if there was ever a study on this specific subject or if its just anecdotal evidence but it does make sense
Hmm, Interesting. The Ferrari 550 has a pretty regular grille, but the facelift version, the 575 has what people call a "gaping mouth" grille. A small change but now it looks like a face with an agape mouth.
That's really sad :|
Thanks, Hank!
🤣😭
Beat me too it. 🙁
Does that mean when I willfully choose to recognize two dots and a line as a face, then the component parts, then a face again, I am consciously and intentionally directing that data to different geographic regions of my brain?! "Send those signals HERE. Now THERE! Now back again HERE!" That's kinda awesome!
actually, both your basic visual cortex and fusiform face area of the brain are lighting up at the same time, there's another religion in your brain that picks which stream of signals gets prioritized over the other.
@TriEssenceMartialArts so a mux switch, neat
@@TriEssenceMartialArts what if you can also choose to see a bit of both but not completely one and the other?
@@inkbunnybunny It's more likely that your brain is holding both concepts in your working memory at the same time. Although I have to say, understanding how the brain works is a work in progress, so we don't know everything about it just yet.
That was my exact thought process
"Hey Joe is that you?"
"No that's my face"😅
Ceci n'est-ce pas un Joe.
06:17. Interestingly, there are many videos around showing reactions of babies to bearded dads who had just shaved their beards. The unmistakable reactions of "who is this dude?" suggest that very early on humans notice facial features.
Hey smart people, Joe is smart.
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Who is joe
@@MihanTheNoob a smart person
When I was a child sleeping at night id see faces in my clothes on the ground and it always scared me haha
this still happens to me and i’m an adult lol
Seeing faces everywhere is one thing.. but not seeing one where you expect one is WAAAAY more upsetting.
@netmym copy paste
There is also a condition where u see faces in stuff waayyy more often than other people. I suffer from it and see faces literally EVERYWHERE. even when other people would say they dont see it, it is clear as day to me.
i think i am the same, what’s the condition called?
@@albanesmuchachoCopy bot...
Okay... before the video starts...my guess is: Cos we are looking for faces!!?
Before I watch it were you correct..?
Pareidolia is one of the funniest tricks our brains play on us, honestly. I adore that kind of silly meme where there's a "shocked outlet" or an angry onion. (Obviously the punniest ones are my favorites!)
I always saw faces in cars: some have happy faces, and some had the "angry/tough" face. My first car, a 1989 Mercury Grand Marquis, was a fine example of the tough/angry face.
same! i always see faces in cars
So much of the evolution of ways our brains get things inaccurate boils down to "better safe and fast than slow and dead" 😂
Baby vision is THAT blurry...?? 😮😮😮 mindblowing fact of the day for sure.
In the first few months they basically just see blurry shapes, major lines/edges/contrast, and movement
and no colour, later they start seeing red and then the green and blue join in
Many animals can see faces, and quite a few can recognise (and remember) individual faces.
I say "hello crow" to the crows in the park every time I see them, and now they know me and won't fly away unless I get way too close
@@yetinother Lol, I always greet Australian magpies with "hi Maggie"
I love the human brain. Such a wonderful demonstration of how capable we are of doing great things. We are doing it an incredible disservice in a lot of ways.
Who is Keith from The Try Guys? I believe you meant to say Grant from Dropout 😏
While true, for some reason people don't say this one!
Why were you here 10 hours ago?
I was wondering tooo@@glitchdev
@@glitchdev Patreon privileges :)
@@glitchdev maybe the video premiered and he was there b4 it got realesed
The peppers scary :(
He was literally sliced in half, I doubt you'd look pleasant either 😞
6:56 babies are learning just like cats and dogs
I have a lot of trouble remembering faces and names. Even if I've known someone for years, if I run into them in the grocery store, I'll draw a complete blank on who they are. Social situations get extremely stressful for me because I'm constantly worried that I'll introduce myself to someone I've known for years or will have to talk to someone who recognizes me, but whom I don't recognize. I've become very good at faking recognition, but inside I'm always in panic mode trying to remember who this person is that knows me.
I have the same thing. I have to explain myself all the time that it’s not bc I’m rude or that person wasn’t important to me. I just don’t remember faces.
Same here. A couple of years ago, I worked with someone on a project three hours straight. Three weeks later, I didn’t recognize her at all. 😢
"I didn't design this thing!" -well, I want to speak to your supervisor
Joe should have said "this thing wasn't designed"
I remember seeing something about this before. Not seeing faces where there are faces (i.e. false negatives) are WAAAY more detrimental to us as a species than seeing faces where there aren't any (false positives).
SERIOUS QUESTION: is there a similar process in the brain for seeing phallic shapes everywhere -- dried gourds, lattice work on bridges, old trees, fur patterns? And the same question for female parts, above and below.
(insert favorite face emoji here for watching to end)
I am not an expert so i could be totally wrong but i think the way your brain recognizes literally anything is similar to how it recognizes faces
Many people suffer from pareidolia… I don't. I _enjoy_ it. It's fun to see little characters everywhere. It makes the world a more whimsical place.
The heikegani crab in Japan has a carapace that looks like a human face. Consequently, Japanese fishing crews tend to throw them back, allowing them to live and prosper whereas those crabs without a face are often doomed.
(Crabs without a face-isn't that a Billy Idol song?)
My personal branding relies on this, it's just 2 circles with the bottoms cut off but it communicates happiness, it helps that it's framed in a circle
That's fair. Mine is annoyed for some reason.
Your "face" looks both wryly amused and grumpily skeptical to me.
@@yobgodababua1862 Yours makes me want Pringles.
@@MonkeyJedi99 That's very kind of you!
Fun facts, it does this for so many other things. Danger Noodles and other creepy stuff, even Nudity! Some Blind people even respond to emotional expressions on faces that they can't consciously see because that early processing is still working.
I really like your channel, and your face. :) But what I really like is following along as you explain interesting things in that soothing, compelling manner you have.
Great video. Rest well, Oliver. You were the best boy.
Every Minecraft player is painfully aware of this…
why minecraft specifically
mojang's devs used this phenomenon when making the observer redstone block! basically, theres a side on the block that detects block updates. players were getting confused as to which side of the block was the detecting side, so the devs put a face-like marking on that side of the block to make it easy for players. @@callyral
While painting a cat, I was interrupted by the question of whether cats have eyebrows or not
They do
“Why is the visual cortex on the back of the brain?” What a great question for evolution.
And Oliver Hanson, you were the best boy, as my Argos was. I will ever keep this pain of losing him to remind me when I'm at my lowest, why I do all the things I do. He taught me so much that even after all these years I still miss him, and feel the need to tell anyone who lost such a dear friend, that their company will never be lost because they made us who we are. They will forever live in every story we tell about them and every teaching we pass through.
Was that the Wilhelm scream I heard in there 😂
0:24 - Hey, I recognize that building's face!
Squishy pooping potatoes is now my favourite way of describing babies
So sorry for your loss. 💔
Gotta admit, for a long time I thought you and Hank Green were the same person but with different personalities.
Thank you for the content!!! Always well researched science and brilliantly presented by Dr J!🤪
Wait... you mean that you are not Keith Green from Smarter Everyday? 😆
I'm now working on a series photographs of faces in tree trunks. I love pareidolia!
And I've seen more than faces. Like these two trees that looked like they were a couple dancing!
That's a fairly new project of mine, only a few months old, and I wonder where that will take me. I can already tell my brain is even more responsive to pareidolia than it was when I started, so I'm looking forward to seeing where that will take me.
Anybody else know that he's actually secretly a band member of The Proclaimers?
So cool. Thank you for sharing.
I can see the face and the thing as it is together. its actually really fun
😂 but for real, the first time i saw one if your video thumbnail, i thought you were Keith!
Unfortunately I see faces in everything, and many people I know cant see them unless I tell them.
Yup me too. My I would tell my dad that as a kid and he. Thought I was seeing things or just a little crazy. Lol
1:36 I have very strong Pareidolia everywhere i look theres faces! :D
I'm so sorry for your loss. Remember the joy he brought you.
Hey guys, Hank released a new video for us to watch. 🤣
ئەو بابەتەم بەبیرهاتەوە پێشتر کەمێکم دەزانی
بەڵام بەهۆی بەشکردنی زانیاریەکەت زیاترم زانی
وە دووای ئەمەش خۆم بەدوواداچوونم کرد
زۆر زۆر سوپاس❤
You should've also talked about hallucinations where people see lots of eyes and faces everywhere. That's also related to the same part of the brain.
I did not expect this to be a scientific matter, it is so cool! Thanks for another great video :)
I haven't dropped acid since the 70's man, now I can tell the difference between a real face and a talking tree. No problem.
FINALLY you address the Hank Green thing! Always thought, though, that you were the third brother.
8:50 the lack of a NA Miata feature is unforgivable
It's an inborn trait to seek out friendly faces for self preservation and replication. It goes back to prehistoric times.
Liked for the mini-rant about angry-looking bro cars. I wish I could like the video twice.
wait... this wasn't a Hank Green video?
Now I won't unsee the Hank green in you, Thanks Joe
A very vsause-esque starting ❤❤
When I was a kid my grandparents had some classic furniture with ornaments that looked like faces. Those things freaked me out and I never wanted to be left alone around those. Amazing how our brain works!
It's true, I literally confused you and Hank for like a month.
Dr. Joe is the greatest!! 🥴
Big love @besmart 😘
Thanks, thumbs up, have a great day.
Your information is always special, you are wonderful, and what you offer dives into the human depth with distinction😊
rest in power, oliver 🖤
Love the channel Joe, keep it up! by the way, I think you really should update your Ultron video. So much as happened with AI since then. Also favorite face😏
Oliver is beautiful. You have my condolences.
I'm sorry for your loss, Joe 😢!
Ps here's my favourite face emoji 🥰
In the botanic garden augsburg Germany , someone said in english to a tourist group: this flowers we call the stepmothers. Just look at the faces! 😂😂😂
My favorite face emoji: 😅
I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for all your hard work, team!
squishy pooping potatoes got me
Its amazing that such a common yet simple illusion that most brains make are still yet to be fully understood by even the best scientists and researchers :3
7:23 probably not i definitly have the opposite i see faces everywhere i look and i cant stop seeing faces and i can tell the difference between two dogs of the same breed ive never seen before
Our ability to recognize faces so quickly is why horror movies use faces for jump-scares. We see the face and react to the expression faster than we can even consciously process it.
My 2010 mazda 3 is the happiest car on the road and I love it
I'm watching this at 50% playback speed and Joe sounds like a drunk guy who just had a MASSIVE revelation about our meat suit driver. It's hilarious :D
4:36 I respectfully disagree with that last one - my brain sees an upside-down face 😂
Omg I’m glad he mentioned his similarity to Hank Green 😂😂
2:17 i saw a face here🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hey Joe, smart people here!
my favorite face ,"🗿"
Our brains are wired up to recognise patterns and sometimes it gets tricked and you see something that may not be exactly what you think you are looking at
It's more our perception, and interpretation, of data/visual stimulus.
The brain is more the physical hardware, your thoughts are where faces come to life.
As a kid i had a dresser with brass handles that looked like creepy smiling faces. I could see it from the bottom of the stairs when i'd go to bed every night. Scared the crap out of me.
Butterflies worked out "faces" on their wings a long time ago. It's not a new thing. Learning about dogs having the ability to move their eyebrows and wolves not having it is pretty cool.
These are my favorites 🥲😊🧐
Way more funny than most on CZcams!
When I was a kid I saw faces in my blanket. I just surmised the theory you espouse here.
Kind of unrelated to this video, but a similar phenomenon that scares the crap out of me is when I "zone out" and think about stuff, then once I get to some random visual image in my head I snap out back into reality, seeing the precise image I last saw in the shape and texture of some random object I was looking at but not paying attention to while I was thinking in my head. Like I am in the bathroom for example thinking about things then I randomly see the shape of an animal or some inanimate object in the texture and contrast of the tile. The human brain is strange I tell you.
PS: It just came to me that I sound like a crackhead to anyone with aphantasia who reads this lol
Things with faces is my favorite Facebook group.
So… Lakan thing has a name? 7:18 that’s pretty cool!!!! Thanks!!!
Years ago, my father owned one of the caravans at a camping site near a dam. It was about an 80 metre hike to the toilets, and there was this one tree that looked like E.T.'s face.
The reason the visual cortex is in the rear of the brain is because the rear contains the more archaic structures. They bits that keep us alive and experience the world.