evolution… Hard-wired 17a: Coincidence and irrational humanity 22 Jul 201917 Jul 2019 In terms of the psychological spandrels we discussed earlier, the tendency to make 'false positive' (type 1) errors is an evolved characteristic. Paranoia, pattern-seeking and agency-detection may well be the…
evolution… Hardwired 16: Pattern recognition 16 Jul 201913 Jul 2019 It’s not hard to see why this obsession with patterns prevailed in the ancestral environment. The early hunter-gatherer who learned to recognise the association between plants and water would have…
