Large Sample occurrences: things are likely to happen because you are likely to experience something about every second. If you are awake for 8 hours a day for 35 days, you will experience 1 million separate events. That means the phrase "one in a million" will occur roughly once a month.
To Inclue in video: The Misconception and the Truth How we apply Apophenia to our lives connection to mythology (the hero's journey, monomyth) Our minds are like film: deleting the boring and unimportant, leaving the exciting and decidedly meaningfu, The Da Vinci code and Lost (connecting seemingly random events and occurences to create sense) Synchronicity Only and issue when you decide that there is meaning in coincidence
Apophenia is creating order from chaos
Trying to make connections and apply meaning to coincidental events
The Misconception and the Truth
How we apply Apophenia to our lives
connection to mythology (the hero's journey, monomyth)
Our minds are like film: deleting the boring and unimportant, leaving the exciting and decidedly meaningfu, The Da Vinci code and Lost (connecting seemingly random events and occurences to create sense)
Synchronicity
Only and issue when you decide that there is meaning in coincidence