Randall acres: Are there situations where belief is superior to knowledge as a survival strategy? Hereheis referring to my paternicity concept, the tendency to find meaningful patterns and random noise. Have you found any evidence to an evolutionary or sucidal benefit to believing that which is demonstrably false? We want to make that it's more of a social, almost political, or anthropological idea. It's kind of a truth, a pragmatic truth, rather than empirical truth.