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The Submarine Rumbas Have a Mindless Machine
Underwater rumbas have to do with coincidences, like a robot that does something unexpected. Coincidences cry out for meaning or explanation because they 're out of the ordinary. We start to seek patterns even when there aren't any. There ar lots of different kinds of causal structures we might be able put on it. But some of them involve giving it more meaning than it actually has.