
Encore: Randonauts
Endless Thread
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The Human Mind and Randonauting
Dr. Ralph Lewis is a psychiatrist working at a teaching hospital in Toronto, Canada. He says Randonauting is the human inclination to assign meaning to an occurrence that is random. There's actually a clinical name for this way of thinking called delusions of reference. It really means delusions of self-reference. People think that things refer to them in a personal way. Everything's happening for a reason and it's all about me.
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