Jason Silva on Patterns | Brain Games

there’s a fabulous fabulous quote by the
philosopher Isaiah Berlin he says to
understand is to perceive past that is
how we extract meaning from morning we
connect the dots right we extrapolate
signification from the hosts of sense
impressions that flood the body mind we
look for patterns of connections we’re
trying to make sense of the noise to
find the signal in the noise it’s how we
understand the world the world comes to
us as noise we see the patterns we
extract me it’s as simple as that
seeing too much reading too deeply
noticing patterns that actually don’t
exist can also become a problem that’s
the other side of that threshold the
idea pattern is city is connected to the
idea of insanity when you’re just making
connections that don’t make any sense
whatsoever and you’re seeing things that
aren’t there that’s of course
responsible for in the phenomenons like
you were foe in alien abductions and all
kinds of you know ghosts and spirits you
know people seeing patterns that
actually are not there and thinking oh
that was a ghost or that was a monster
that was Bigfoot
I mean that’s pattern is City patterns
very important to make sense of the
world but too many patterns lead us
astray
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