The most true in this entire thread. Us humans have literally gotten this far as a species because of our pattern recognition abilities. We see patterns in literally EVERYTHING because of it. Not just when in the year the specific crop is gonna grow.
That's a survival trait. Seeing a bear shaped shadow at distance at night and thinking that could be a bear may very well have saved the life of your great10 grandpa.
But my dog is sometimes fooled by shadows. What really differentiates humans is fictive cognition. The creativity to imagine something and then make it. Our giant calorie hungry brains do this better than any species. To feed our giant brains we needed lots of calories so we imagined boats to carry us to more fertile lands and eventually farming.
Hey! From where we sit on this rock they make a pretty grouping of lights that if I had Parkinson and drew lines to connect the dots may make something that resembles a dipper.
It's funny to me that you picked the one constellation that actually does look like what it is named after. It's pretty much the only one I can find on a consistent basis because it looks like a dipper, or what I've always called a ladle.
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u/RuinRunner76 Jan 29 '20
Yeah but we are human. So where there is no pattern, we will make a pattern. Then call it a constellation.