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superstition was humanity’s first science, and is the science by which we’ve acquired all the others




And superstition is a good example of our brains trying to overcome its limits by just gambling on the outcome / being probabilistic. Maybe guessing is the right call in absense of other options. If part of a species guesses correctly, it can continue and reproduce. But if it insists on being 100% sure it would be wiped out quickly.



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