[jamesmehaffey]

I listened to a lecture not too long ago about the perception of coincidence in the context of large, seemingly random environments, for example repeatedly seeing the same person in a busy city shopping district or encountering unexpected traffic patterns. This sort of goes to why humans are so bad at seeing patterns in the ”random” numbers generated by computers. Simply put, coincidence is generally our inability to make sense of the more complex underlying mathematical relationships, and so our dumb monkey brains attempt to fit together information that may not really have any logical commonality.