“"For the human brain," Edmond explained, "any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with 'insufficient data,' and so our brains invent the data-- offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order--creating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reassure us that there is indeed an order and structure to the unseen world."”
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