Comments on: Another accidental pattern? http://www.beatnic.co.uk/2008/08/21/another-accidental-pattern/ Observations and questions from Nic Price Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:19:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: John Heyderman http://www.beatnic.co.uk/2008/08/21/another-accidental-pattern/#comment-82969 John Heyderman Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:17:05 +0000 http://www.beatnic.co.uk/?p=685#comment-82969 Seems like the human brain is hard-wired to seek patterns. This gives us an evolutionary advantage in that we can sometimes predict future events. Only trouble is we can't turn it off. As the world inevitably throws coincidental but meaningless patterns at us, we still latch onto them -- even if they're not much use for anything but forming entertaining conspiracy theories or making money for casinos. Seems like the human brain is hard-wired to seek patterns. This gives us an evolutionary advantage in that we can sometimes predict future events.

Only trouble is we can’t turn it off. As the world inevitably throws coincidental but meaningless patterns at us, we still latch onto them — even if they’re not much use for anything but forming entertaining conspiracy theories or making money for casinos.

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