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The brain itself is a belief engine.

From sensory data flowing through the senses the brain naturally begins to look for and find patterns, and then infuses those patterns with meaning.

The first process I call patternicity: ]
 the tendency to find meaningful patterns in both meaningful and meaninglessness data.

The second process I call agenticity: the tendency to infuse patterns with meaning, intention and agency.

We can't help it.

Our brains evolved to connect the dots of our world into meaningful patterns that explain why things happen.

These meaningful patterns become beliefs, and these beliefs shape our understanding of reality
I got a phone call today from s bookstore to let me know that my copy of "The Believing Brain" had arrived.

I'm into it now. It is riveting.

Thanx for recommending it BLUELINE

It arraved today

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Fully related: I got this in the mail today.