re: That's right.
A lot of the problems with the accuracy of what we see is not so much trying to find the patterns, it's the inherent biological tendency of the human brain to impose patterns and identifications where there aren't any.
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy.
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!