Seeing patterns in chaos | Haala Qamar | TEDxGeorgetown U Qatar

Have you ever noticed that when everything in your life starts changing all at once, you begin looking for signs? A small moment feels symbolic. Coincidences feel heavier. You begin connecting dots and thinking this must mean something. That instinct, the urge to find meaning in uncertainty is deeply profoundly human and it has a name. It's called patternicity. The term was coined by a science historian and writer Michael Shurmer who used it to describe our brain's tendencies to perceive meaning and pattern ...