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Rationally Speaking #13 - Superstition, Is It Good For You?

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The Evolution of Anxiety

Lack of predictability, not being able to predict what's going on is different from how afraid you are. I could see potentially an evolutionary explanation for why when our pulse is elevated, we tend to see patterns more readily in noise. We have a tendency to project agency and this may be a natural extrapolation essentially of the projection of agency - one of the hypotheses about the origin of religious beliefs.

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