"**Memory in humans is a large machine to make inductive inferences**. Think of memories: **What is easier to remember, a collection of random facts glued together, or a story, something that offers a series of logical links?** Causality is easier to commit to memory. Our brain would have less work to do in order to retain the information. The size is smaller. What is induction exactly? **Induction is going from plenty of particulars to the general. It is very handy, as the general takes much less room in one’s memory than a collection of particulars. The effect of such compression is the reduction in the degree of detected randomness**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[induction]], [[fooled-by-randomness]], [[hindsight-bias]], [[story-bias]], [[making-decisions]], **Source** -- [[202410121132 - B - Fooled by Randomness]]