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>Our brains are wired to see twins (and symmetry) as evidence of intent as opposed to randomness. This seems like a massive over-generalization.

• nickserv 4y ago
  Symmetry is part of beauty across time and culture. For example people with more facial symmetry are considered better looking.
  • treis 4y ago
    Yes, but it's not evidence of intent. It's lack of deformity and disease.
    • falcor84 4y ago
      The word for "lack of deformity" is "form" which we generally use to refer to something which was generated based on a rule, as opposed to complete randomness.
    • dilap 4y ago
      Which is evidence of intent! -- the intent of the genome being successfully carried out. :-)
• brookst 4y ago
  Perhaps? Can you think of a counter-example, where seeing an event happen once is more attention-getting and memorable than seeing the event happen twice in a row in quick succession? Imagine you see a herd of deer trotting along, and one goes down. A hole, or ditch, or maybe a predator? Now imagine two deer go down at nearly the same time. Different implications, or at least different probabilities to the possible implications. I'll stand by my over-generalization for now, but I'm open to counter-examples.