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It's actually the opposite, you have a pattern-seeking brain that likes coincidences. It's why we notice patterns, because some are not coincidences but outrigh
by birracerveza 4y ago
It's actually the opposite, you have a pattern-seeking brain that likes coincidences. It's why we notice patterns, because some are not coincidences but outright consequences, however indirect they may be!
But there's a lot of coincidences in the world, some being so unlikely and so unfortunate, our mind can refuse to accept that, well.. it can be just a coincidence.
The longest-reigning UK monarch dies at the start of the shortest term PM's tenure ... it's incredibly unlikely, yet it happened. Should there be an explanation behind it? Or maybe it's just a coincidence? You decide.
- bheadmaster 4y agoFrom a deeply cynical perspective, everything in the world is a coincidence, it's just that some coincidences happen so often that betting on them becomes useful, so we give them a name: "cause-effect relationship".
- birracerveza 4y agoWell yeah, you could say there's no coincidences, but simply an universe where the cause-effect relationships are so incomprehensibly, mysteriously complex that you are forced to dismiss them as just a coincidence ... but now you have coincidences!
- bheadmaster 4y agoSo in conclusion - cause-effect relationships can be modeled as coincidences, and coincidences can be modeled as cause-effect relationships... Making them mathematically equivalent.
- alwayslikethis 4y agoThis is basically a two sentence restatement of David Hume's view on causality.