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341. Secret Scientists & Real Conspiracies — John Lisle on Stanley Lovell, the OSS precursor to the CIA, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Randomness of Randomness

"The brain is not wired to perceive randomness very well," he says. "We just make, connect the dots, make patterns out of random noise." He asks: What do we set our hit criteria that we're going to count patterns as real or not? That's a hard problem in any field of knowledge".

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