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the 369 you keep seeing

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is a trap your brain set up

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a viewer wrote to me recently

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saying the numbers 369 kept appearing in his life

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a license plate ending in 369

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369 hidden in a delivery order number

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even his gym locker was number 369

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he said it felt like the universe was sending him a signal

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and he brought up synchronicity from Jung

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it did not feel like coincidence to him

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online people call these angel numbers

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the idea that some higher being talks to you through numbers

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this claim spreads incredibly widely on social media

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and many people believe it completely

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today I want to answer this friend seriously

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and take the whole thing apart from start to finish

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but before we get into it

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I have to give you some bad news

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that line that has circulated online for over a decade

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if you knew the magnificence of 3 6 and 9

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you would hold the key to the universe

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most people think Tesla said it

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but search every Tesla paper patent letter and public record

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and this line has no original source anywhere

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the earliest trace anyone can find

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dates to around 2009 and 2010

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in a few English blog posts and forum comments

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before that there is nothing

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it looks more like a variant of another line

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another famous Tesla quote with no evidence behind it either

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that one goes

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if you want to find the secrets of the universe

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think in terms of energy frequency and vibration

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the earliest source is only a man named Bergstresser

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who claimed he heard Tesla say it in a private conversation

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a secondhand retelling with no documentation at all

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became a quote the whole world believed within a few years

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hello

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everyone

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I am Leo Wang

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Tesla really was obsessed with the number 3

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that part is actually true

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he would circle a building three times before going in

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and his hotel room number had to be divisible by 3

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he also used exactly 18 napkins at a meal

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but modern psychiatry looks at this behavior

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and sees something closer to clinical OCD

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not evidence of any cosmic code

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alright

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so the origin of the quote is settled

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but the real question is still there

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the experience of that viewer is real

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he really is seeing 369 everywhere

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he is not making it up

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so the thing worth asking is this

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why does your brain make you see the same numbers again and again

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I will hold the answer for a moment

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do a small experiment with me

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starting right now

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quietly pick a number and keep it in your head

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say 247

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then for the next three days

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watch your phone screen your delivery slips your grocery receipts

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I will bet you

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within three days you will start seeing 247 everywhere

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cognitive science has a name for this

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the frequency illusion

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in 1994

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an American wrote a letter to a newspaper

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saying he happened to hear the name of a German group

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and then saw it everywhere over the next few days

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he found it unbelievable

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but the answer is very plain

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your brain takes in about eleven million bits of sensory data every second

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but your conscious mind handles only about fifty bits

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what does that mean

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it means ninety nine point nine nine percent of what you experience awake

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gets quietly filtered out by your brain in the background

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you have no idea what you are missing

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and once your attention marks something as important

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your brain raises its priority to the top

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from that moment on

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you start seeing it everywhere

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not because it appears more often

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but because your filter has been reset

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two cognitive mechanisms are teaming up to fool you

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the first is selective attention

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your brain automatically amplifies whatever you have marked

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the second is confirmation bias

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every time you see 369

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you feel your intuition has been confirmed again

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but you never count

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how many times you saw 248 or 517 or 830 that same day

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you remember every 369

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and automatically ignore every other number

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stack these two mechanisms together

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and you get an intensely deceptive experience

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one that makes you sincerely believe

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the universe is chasing you with these numbers

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and it goes further

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once you believe these numbers carry special meaning

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your brain enters a self reinforcing loop

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the more you care about it

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the more easily you see it

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the more you see it

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the more right your caring feels

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once that loop starts

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you will even unconsciously arrange your daily life

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to create more chances of running into 369

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you might say

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fine

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call it a cognitive bias

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but why 369 of all numbers

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that is a good question

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because mathematically 369 really is a little different

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do a second experiment with me

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keep doubling 1

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1 2 4 8

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add 1 and 6 and you get 7

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keep doubling

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3 plus 2 is 5

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6 plus 4 is 10

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1 plus 0 is 1

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do you see it

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1 2 4 8 7 5

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and then back to 1 2 4 8 7 5

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six digits looping forever

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and 3 6 and 9 never appear at all

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but what happens when you double 3

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3 becomes 6

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1 plus 2 is 3

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3 and 6 just circle inside their own little club

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9 is even stranger

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double 9 and you get 18

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1 plus 8 is 9 again

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it always points back to itself

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the nine digits from 1 to 9 split naturally into two worlds

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1 2 4 5 7 and 8 are one crowd

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chasing each other as they double

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3 6 and 9 are the other crowd

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a closed system of their own

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that does not play with anyone else

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mathematicians call this mod 9 arithmetic

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9 is the largest single digit in base ten

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it works like a mirror

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add 9 to any number

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and the digital root does not change

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3 and 6 are factors of 9

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so they inherit that symmetry

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that is why some people call 3 6 and 9 the control numbers

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not because they hold any mystical power

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but because inside our counting system

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they really do sit in a special structural position

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but here is a fact almost nobody notices

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this whole specialness of 369

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depends entirely on the fact that we happen to use base ten

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why do humans use base ten

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because we have ten fingers

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with eight legs

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you would use base eight

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and the numbers in that special position would not be 369

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the Maya used base twenty

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because they counted their toes too

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the Babylonians used base sixty

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which still survives in our clocks and our degrees

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every base has its own symmetric numbers

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and no set is closer to cosmic truth than another

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if one were

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personally I would bet on binary

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in other words

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the magnificence of 369 is not a property of the universe

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it is a property of ten fingers

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this fact may disappoint some people

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but do not be disappointed yet

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because the next part is the genuinely astonishing one

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so far

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we have taken apart the cognitive bias and the mathematics

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but that viewer also mentioned synchronicity from Jung

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and this concept deserves a serious look

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Jung formally published the synchronicity principle in 1952

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with a very precise definition

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a meaningful acausal connection

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three key words

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meaningful

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acausal

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and simultaneous

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he told one classic case

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a woman patient was describing a dream about a golden scarab

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and at the exact moment she spoke

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a rose chafer flew over and hit the office window of Jung

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he thought this was not coincidence

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but some deeper order revealing itself

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most cognitive scientists believe

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the experience of synchronicity is fully explained by confirmation bias

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plus our systematic underestimation of probability

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here is a counterintuitive mathematical fact

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put people in one room

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and with just 23 of them

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the chance that two share a birthday passes fifty percent

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the chance passes ninety nine percent

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23 people hitting the same day out of 365

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that has to be nearly impossible

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but that is not how probability works

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think about it

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billions of people live through tens of billions of tiny events every day

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the statistically impossible thing would be no stunning coincidences at all

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but Jung had one insight

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that probability theory does not cover

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what he really wanted to ask was this

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why do certain coincidences jolt something inside you

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while most coincidences you never even notice

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where does that jolt come from

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this takes us to a level deeper than cognitive bias

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why is your brain born as a frantic pattern recognition machine

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the answer is out on the grasslands of your ancestors

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a few hundred thousand years ago

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your ancestor heard a rustle in the grass

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and had a fraction of a second to judge

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or a leopard

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mistake wind for a leopard and run

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and the cost is a little wasted energy

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mistake a leopard for wind and stay

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and the cost is your life

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natural selection does not care whether you judge correctly

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it only cares whether you survive

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so it wildly favors brains that would rather raise ten thousand false alarms

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than miss the real one once

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the urge that makes you see a cosmic signal in 369 today

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and the urge that made your ancestor see faces in the clouds

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run on the same neural circuit

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this circuit is the reason you are alive today

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but its side effect is this

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you see meaning inside random noise

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and force patterns onto places that have none

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in 1958

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the German psychiatrist Klaus Conrad gave this tendency a name

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apophenia

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it is the price the brain pays for staying alive

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think about it carefully

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almost every belief system in human history

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astrology numerology tarot feng shui

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is essentially a cultural product of this pattern recognition machinery

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humans are simply terrified of randomness

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a world without patterns

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a world driven purely by probability

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is unbearable to the brain

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so we would rather believe star signs decide personality

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rather believe numbers carry the will of heaven

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than accept one plain and brutal fact

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most things happen for no reason at all

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but here is the question

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is this hunger for patterns

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really completely groundless

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at this point

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if I told you it is all cognitive bias and stopped there

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this episode would be far too cheap

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because cognitive science answers only half the question

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it explains why you see patterns that are not there

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but it never answers the deeper question

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are there any real patterns in this world

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Buddhism has a concept called attachment to form

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the Diamond Sutra says

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all forms that appear

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seeing a cosmic code in 369

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is attachment to form

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looking for signals of destiny in every coincidence

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is attachment to form as well

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seen this way

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cognitive science and Buddhism across a gap of 2500 years

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point to the same conclusion

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the patterns you see are not in the world

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they are in your filter

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but turn it around

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why does your filter happen to have this shape

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why does the mathematics of base ten

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happen to turn symmetric right at 3 6 and 9

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why is nature full of threefold and sixfold symmetry

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the six petals of a snowflake

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the hexagonal packing of a honeycomb

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the hexagonal arrangement of carbon atoms in graphite

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your brain did not invent these symmetric structures

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they were here billions of years before you appeared

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the physicist Max Tegmark proposed a bold hypothesis

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called the mathematical universe hypothesis

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he does not mean we can describe the physical world with mathematics

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everyone agrees with that

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what he means is

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the physical world itself is a mathematical structure

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mathematics is not describing reality

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mathematics is reality

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particles force fields spacetime

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at the deepest level these are not made of matter

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they are made of mathematical relations

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this is labeled a conjecture

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and is far from academic consensus

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but it raises a question you cannot ignore

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look at nature

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from the spiral arms of a galaxy to the seed arrangement of a sunflower

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from the curve of a seashell to the shape of a hurricane

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the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio appear again and again

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nobody ever taught the sunflower what Fibonacci is

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these mathematical structures are simply there

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running in silence

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whether or not you know their names

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if Tegmark is pointed in the right direction

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then that faint sense of order you feel in 369

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is not entirely an illusion

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your filter really is deceiving you

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confirmation bias really is amplifying the signal

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but that intuition you feel

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that faint sense that order runs underneath the world

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may have truly touched something

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you only touched it the wrong way

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you were facing the right direction

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and made a beautiful mistake

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you used the way of attachment to form

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to reach a structure only non attachment can see clearly

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you mistook the finger for the moon

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but the moon really is there

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there is a line in the Diamond Sutra

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if you see all forms as not form

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then you see the Tathagata

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it does not mean forms are false so do not look

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quite the opposite

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what it means is

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you must first honestly see clearly what the form is

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see its structure its edges its limits

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and then pass through it

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only then can you touch the thing behind form that depends on no particular shape

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without passing through form

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you cannot get there

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but if you stop at the form

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and treat the form as the destination

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you stay trapped here forever

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369 is exactly this kind of form

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it is a real mathematical symmetry yes

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but it is not the ultimate code of the universe

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it is only the one curtain you happen to be able to see

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whatever is behind that curtain

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does not look like 369

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so back to the original question

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you keep seeing 369

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and this fact itself

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is two things at the same time

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it is evidence your brain is deceiving you

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and evidence your intuition is knocking

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the universe is not sending you a signal with 369

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but the reason 369 strikes you

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is that there was already a window inside you

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always open

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always waiting for some kind of order to walk in

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what is that window

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why does the window of one person face numbers

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another face music

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another face the night sky

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I have not figured this question out yet

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but I think it matters far more than 369 itself

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what do you think

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that window inside you

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which way does it face

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I am Leo Wang

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see you next time