eli5 why are humans so addicted to patterns?

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I’m sitting here and noticing that almost every bar tender is dancing to the almost exact beat to the music. So in general I’m wondering if anyone knows why we’re so addicted to patterns? From visual to audio and so on, what drives the brain to find and replicate patterns so much? Are other animals addicted to patterns?

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In the book, Reality for Atheists, the author explains how humans evolved the ability to recognize behavior patterns so we could emigrate north through the African desert together. We developed a hypersense for conspiracy (seeing pattens that aren’t there) so we could understand who was to be trusted by the group, and who wasn’t.

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