Remember the talk of "omens" when a couple of birds attacked the Pope's "peace doves?" Remember when Maharishi mistook an icicle on his balcony for Shiva?
New research suggests that the brains of many people are naturally susceptible to projecting meaning onto meaningless events and considering them omens. Unless their brains are working more efficiently, that is, and exercising cognitive inhibition. http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-superst\ ition <http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025750/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-supers\ tition>
