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The Dangers of Apophenia: Not Everything Happens for a Reason
Apophenia : A tendency to perceive correlations between unrelated things, because your mind can only deal with tiny sample sizes and assuming things are correlated creates easy/comforting explanations of how the world works.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Humans are meaning-making creatures. We live with biases that look real to us and cause us to make meaning, and we have brains that look for patterns, which is why you might see Jesus on a slice of toast.
Elaine Hilides • Stop Making Meaning Matter
Believing that everything will be better if only we gather more information commits us to endless searching and casting about, to one more swipe of the screen in the hope that the elusive bit of data, which will make everything clear, will suddenly present itself. From one angle, this is just another symptom of reducing our experience of the world ... See more