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Surely cognition itself IS pattern-finding/recognition/manipulation. In my reductionist view all human belief and action can be traced back to prejudice driven
by shaunxcode 18y ago
Surely cognition itself IS pattern-finding/recognition/manipulation.
In my reductionist view all human belief and action can be traced back to prejudice driven heuristics.
So I find it a little naive/short sighted of the article to indicate that false pattern finding is something that happens only under stress.
- jsmcgd 18y agoIt doesn't say only under stress. It says it happens more frequently.
- jherber 18y agoakes perfect sense under the Evolutionary Psychology framework. If something bad is happening around you, you should be trying to overfit the data to avoid your demise. Assuming an escapable, cataclysmic event as a fitness function - only those growing paranoid and neurotically "connecting the dots" are going to make it out alive to breed again.