#patternicity

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“The brain is a belief engine… It relies on two processes: patternicity and agenticity. It finds meaningful patterns in both meaningful and meaningless data. It infuses patterns with meaning, and imagines intention and agency in inanimate objects and chance occurrences… We believe before we reason. Once beliefs are formed, we seek out confirmatory arguments and evidence to justify them. We ignore contrary evidence or make up rationalizations to explain it away. We do not like to admit we are wrong. We seldom change our minds…” —Michael Sherman (via cobotis)

This piece of art created by a homeless person is the most poignant and powerful statements I have ever seen.

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“The brain is a belief engine… It relies on two processes: patternicity and agenticity. It finds meaningful patterns in both meaningful and meaningless data. It infuses patterns with meaning, and imagines intention and agency in inanimate objects and chance occurrences… We believe before we reason. Once beliefs are formed, we seek out confirmatory arguments and evidence to justify them. We ignore contrary evidence or make up rationalizations to explain it away. We do not like to admit we are wrong. We seldom change our minds…” —Michael Sherman (via cobotis)

Well that's a bit spooky, half an hour or so (idk what even is the passage of time) on from that bird post and i see that Google's word of the day is to do with birds.

Like I said yesterday....

🎶 STRAAAAANGE THAAANGS 🎶