I read -- in another piece, somewhere else, a long time ago -- a speculation that the human brain is a pattern-recognition machine which is hard-wired with a bi

I read -- in another piece, somewhere else, a long time ago -- a speculation that the human brain is a pattern-recognition machine which is hard-wired with a bias toward false positives. Which can be evolutionarily explained -- if you think you see a large predator moving through tall grass, but it's just the wind, you pay the small cost of excess caution to stay hidden or fleeting exertion to run away as fast as possible -- but a false negative (failing to perceive the moving grass as a predator) is a much more costly mistake (resulting in being killed and eaten). So over time the survival advantage of a false-positive-favoring brain makes it more common. And this also explains the fact that certain aspects of religion -- attribution of natural phenomena to the action of unseen intelligent being(s) -- occur in most, if not all, human cultures. The attribution to intelligent agency, where no such link actually exists, is a false positive in pattern recognition terms. I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me where I found this idea, as I neglected to note the source at the time.