Apophenia and the Intentionality Fallacy Apophenia and the Intentionality Fallacy

Apophenia and the Intentionality Fallacy

Thinking Critically In Light of Littlewood's Law of Miracles

Publisher Description

This book explores how the human mind finds patterns and meanings in random events and tends to impute upon them paranormal or spiritual purposes. However, on closer and more critical examination we discover that it is the brain that tends to play tricks on us for a variety of reasons, including an unusual evolutionary advantage. A number of pictures and illustrations and videos are added to the text to help the reader better understand "apophenia" which is the tendency for cognitive "patternicity."

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2012
March 26
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
30
Pages
PUBLISHER
MSAC Philosophy Group
SELLER
David Lane
SIZE
536.8
MB

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