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The Halo Effect

Hidden Brain

CHAPTER

Randomness and Meaninglessness

duncan: People associate randomness with an absence of meaning. He says we are powerfully motivated to see the hand of intentionality and purpose. Take that away from us, he writes, and we are left not just with the terror of randomness, but the terror of meaninglessness. "The world doesn't create meaning. We're the ones who decide what it means"

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