Och varför gör du i så fall det? En mycket intressant artikel av världskända skeptikern Michael Shermer inleds så här:
Why do people see faces in nature, interpret window stains as human figures, hear voices in random sounds generated by electronic devices or find conspiracies in the daily news? A proximate cause is the priming effect, in which our brain and senses are prepared to interpret stimuli according to an expected model. UFOlogists see a face on Mars. Religionists see the Virgin Mary on the side of a building. Paranormalists hear dead people speaking to them through a radio receiver. Conspiracy theorists think 9/11 was an inside job by the Bush administration. Is there a deeper ultimate cause for why people believe such weird things? There is. I call it “patternicity,” or the tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise.
Spännande. Läs hela artikeln på Scientific American.
Se också en video med författaren: The Pattern behind Self-deception
P.S Ikväll agerar en annan världskänd, kanske den mest kända, skeptiker på scen i Göteborg. Japp. Jag talar om James Randi. Kommer Du till Göteborg? I’ll be there.
