It’s beautiful that our brains have evolved to recognize patterns. It’s one of our greatest strengths. It’s what allows me to communicate ideas to you with these squiggly little symbols you’re looking at right now. It’s what allows us to understand concepts like mathematics and physics, it’s how we manage to engineer buildings that don’t collapse and planes that stay in the air. So in a way, there is a “grand novelist.” It’s us. We are the ones writing this epic saga, pulling out the plot points from the scenery.
