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goobster  ·  3475 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why people think total nonsense is really deep.

I wonder if this also relates to humans being "pattern-seeking animals."

We first assume there is a pattern to be discerned, and then work to make a pattern appear. That pattern might be, "This sentence reads like BS, but it's probably because I didn't understand it. So let's turn off the BS filter, and see what I can make of it in a more broadly accepting frame of mind."