Thanks for the linkback, Kurt.

Interesting point u raise here, namely, that there’s adaptive value in being alert to coincidences. If so, then the world needs to be pretty predictable and ho-hum on the whole. It’d be interesting to think of how cognition would evolve on a much more random world– say a world where events that could happen very often do happen. On such a world, would rationality be treated as something despicable, something to be cured through a proper scientific education?

Anil