Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.
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Steven PinkerSomething about the topic of consciousness makes people, like the White Queen in Through The Looking Glass, believe six impossible things before breakfast.
Steven Pinker