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Your brain sees faces everywhere because it would rather be wrong than unprepared.

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Seeing faces in objects is called pareidolia and comes from the brain's strong specialization for detecting faces. Quickly noticing a face can be socially useful, which is a plausible reason it errs toward false positives.

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