How to Accept Loose Ends.

By Embracing Randomness !

As we are in the middle of the AI age, we need to raise this child/teen to behave by creating tech that DO actually provide awareness and increase human knowledge and possibilities for ALL.

Most humans are naturally egotistical and self referential: It’s all about me.

Our brains are pattern seeking and agency detecting.

These traits evolved to detect cause and effect. They helped our distant ancestors interpret the actions of predators and prey and cooperate as social animals.

We expect specific causes and purposes for significant events.

The problem is that we detect patterns and agency so instinctively that we do it excessively, thinking we see cause and purpose where there is just randomness.

It is very common for people to believe that “everything happens for a reason” and that things are “meant to be.”

We are more likely to believe that significant events were “fated” than to attribute them to chance.

Another thing our brains are terrible at is distinguishing causation from mere correlation.

Correlation may reflect unrelated or independent causes or random factors. Just because event B followed action A does not necessarily mean that A was the cause of B.

“To swim against the current of human intuition is a difficult task.

The human mind is built to identify for each event a definite cause and can, therefore, have a hard time accepting the influence of unrelated or random factors. … Random processes are fundamental in nature and are ubiquitous in our everyday lives, yet most people do not understand them or think much about them.” Leonard Mlodinow.

Humans have a great need to feel in control and to maintain order in our environment.

The human need for order and control are obvious factors contributing to our aversion to accepting life and the world as fundamentally random and to our human propensity to believe that the universe is governed by a higher power with a higher purpose.