05/09/2022
What we perceive as the world around us is not it. We don't operate on data that comes directly from the senses, only the image that is constructed by the brain🧠.
In everyday life, we don't bother with it. Because the brain honestly tries to build the most sensible interpretation of reality. And it rarely gets into trouble. But it does it regularly.
Our brain likes to build correlations. We look for patterns in the world around us simply because it's easier for us to see it that way. An orderly, law-governed world is easier to understand. We also pay more attention to spurious correlations simply because they are unusual. The brain responds to new things🔍.
So when we think of someone, and that person calls - it's wow, and we immediately report it to the caller himself, we tell several friends about this "funny story". However, those hundreds of times when we think about someone and he doesn't call - we don't pay attention to it😅.