“That’s not everyone, though?” Marconi pressed. “I mean most people believe at least one wild theory, right? JFK, Pearl Harbor, Tupac Shakur still being alive, etcetera. They don’t all have excess dopamine levels.” “Pareidolia,” Gretchen said easily, snagging the last pierogi without shame. “That’s a fancy word for humans’ tendency to find significance in something where there is none. Like kids finding shapes in clouds. We do that a lot. And that technically is a subset of apophenia, which is the tendency to find connections where they don’t exist.” Gretchen paused, looked up, studied Marconi
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