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Offline Christine

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Re: Mayday Hills lunatic asylum, Beechworth
« Reply #45 on: March 07, 2011, 04:41:28 AM »
Hi, I think it is simulacra.

Thanks for your comments on the tour.
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Re: Mayday Hills lunatic asylum, Beechworth
« Reply #46 on: March 07, 2011, 07:54:30 AM »
I only see a distorted reflection of sky and clouds lol.
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Re: Mayday Hills lunatic asylum, Beechworth
« Reply #47 on: March 12, 2011, 07:11:35 PM »
I have to agree that it could simply be the mind seeing what it wants to see.  But it's kind of trippy.  :-)
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Re: Mayday Hills lunatic asylum, Beechworth
« Reply #48 on: March 13, 2011, 12:47:53 AM »
I had a quick play with image enhancement and I have to agree with Christine - it's simulacra. 
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Re: Mayday Hills lunatic asylum, Beechworth
« Reply #49 on: March 13, 2011, 10:48:02 AM »
I love it when people talk french.
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Re: Mayday Hills lunatic asylum, Beechworth
« Reply #50 on: March 13, 2011, 11:06:47 AM »
ce nest rien....

(sorry, my french is rusty to the point of being mairde.... :)   )
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Re: Mayday Hills lunatic asylum, Beechworth
« Reply #51 on: March 13, 2011, 11:09:22 AM »
Simulacra is a phenomenon not unlike conceptualization.  It takes information and matches it to a pattern and then labels it.  E.g. two dots with a mark between them is interpreted as a face.  It's one of the basic building blocks of how our mind conceptualizes and functions.  They call it simulacra when this occurs 'erroneously'.  My parents had a set of bedroom wardrobes which had demonic faces all over it LOL....
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Re: Mayday Hills lunatic asylum, Beechworth
« Reply #52 on: March 13, 2011, 04:45:52 PM »
Oooh yes knotty wood has all sorts of human and animal faces watching you and each other.

Often I don't see the simulcra in the pics posted here although I see faces everywhere else. This time I immediately saw it and it has body language, a bit of character, something.
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Re: Mayday Hills lunatic asylum, Beechworth
« Reply #53 on: June 16, 2011, 04:45:10 PM »
Yes, I have done the asylum tour and it was tremendous.  The history is fantastic.  Hubby and I stayed in the nurses accommodation and were given a private tour around the premises in his car after the proper tour.  The asylum is extremely impressive.  The 'lights out' cellar was eerie and it was great to climb the stairs again to get out of there.  I am going back soon to do another tour.  It is great.  Worth the trip.
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Re: Mayday Hills lunatic asylum, Beechworth
« Reply #54 on: September 11, 2011, 06:43:42 PM »
Thanks for your info on simulacra GaryTheDemon!  Kind of like smells - the theory that the brain recognises certain scents, that we develop some pattern of identifying scents - hence we may smell something that new or something the brain cannot identify, so it identifies it as something familiar.  I don't know - it sounded good when I was reading about it!  Kind of like a system of codes not unlike the concept of two dots for eyes and a dot for a nose....

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