Pattern-Seeking: Evolution's Double-Edged Gift

Pattern-Seeking: Evolution's Double-Edged Gift
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Our brains evolved to spot patterns as a survival mechanism, but then evolution got carried away and gave us too much pattern recognition. Now we see Jesus in toast and constellations in random stars. The irony? That same overactive pattern-seeking that helped us avoid predators now has us finding conspiracies on Facebook and "meaningful coincidences" in completely random events. Natural selection's little joke on humanity: "You wanted to survive predators? Here, have some paranoia and superstition as a bonus!"

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