Humans have used magic thinking for millennia to explain natural phenomena that the brain is unable to fit into its limited and intuitive conception of the world; This is built with the information provided by the senses, which only detect a minimum fraction of the energy changes that determine such phenomena. Hence, our ancestors ended up believing that gods of all kinds threw thunderbolts, devastating plagues or rain on their heads.

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