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But the question needs to be asked WHY are humans able to discern such patterns and apply meaning?
Perhaps these star patterns, and their likeness, are a way of directing us to look deeper. Maybe they are like road signs that are meant to be read and direct us?
Utter piffle. The shape of the Hebrew alphabet is entirely due to its being written from right to left with a flat nib held in the right hand. Modern italic handwriting has the same characteristics, backwards.There's a classic problem in medical psychophysics called the ring artefact. If you present an image of a disc consisting entirely of random black pixels, i.e. pure noise, people will swear that there is a pattern of concentric circles inside the disc, but if you set up a pattern recognition algorithm to look for them objectively, they aren't there. All very funny except that sometimes there really is a ring artefact in a CT or MRI image, which is indicative of a machine fault!
Yeah, but I just tried writing Hebrew (or indeed any other marks on parchment) with a flat nib. It looks like a spiral edge-on.