{"id":8809,"date":"2013-08-25T17:30:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T00:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=8809"},"modified":"2013-08-25T19:39:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T02:39:56","slug":"the-stainglass-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/the-stainglass-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"The stainglass of the UNIVERSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn short, apophenia is the human tendency to visualize what isn\u2019t really there. Our pattern-obsessed minds\u2013born from an evolutionary need to make predictions related to survival\u2013see meaning in patterns, objects, sounds, and life events that aren\u2019t tied together by anything more than chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecreatorsproject.vice.com\/blog\/playing-apophenia-with-william-clarks-otherworldly-photomicrography\">http:\/\/thecreatorsproject.vice.com\/blog\/playing-apophenia-wi\u2026icrography<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn short, apophenia is the human tendency to visualize what isn\u2019t really there. Our pattern-obsessed minds\u2013born from an evolutionary need to make predictions related to survival\u2013see meaning in patterns, objects, sounds, and life events that aren\u2019t tied together by anything more than chance.\u201d http:\/\/thecreatorsproject.vice.com\/blog\/playing-apophenia-wi\u2026icrography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}