Theory: humans like to maintain uncertainty at a constant level. If reality gets too predictable we tell more plausible make-believe stories. If it gets less predictable we tell fewer stories. If a coin always comes up heads, we tell stories of a world where it always comes up tails.

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Dostoevsky wrote about this in Notes from Underground (excerpt below). The inherent desire for entropy is definitely under-explored.  I wonder if it’s evolutionary. https://i.imgur.com/d0j0QvX.jpg