Why Animals can predict lotto numbers better than most of us
This has led to the discovery of numerous studies that attempt to assess whether humans are hardwired to detect patterns. So is there a fundamental emotional component to learning about probability? Perhaps. But one of the most intriguing claims is that the very act of predicting is emotionally and cognitively pleasurable for the same reason gambling and playing chess are. Empathy: Research has shown that people can 'feel' where other people are in their probability models ‘It's not like you're winning a lot of money by predicting these numbers,’ said Emre Turkcan, a computational psychologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ‘But it is actually a very cool thing to predict because people do get pleasure out of it.’ Some studies show that people from a kind of shared brainpower for probability judgments. People are ‘like a hive mind’ when they're trying to predict something, says Turkcan, whose study of the poker-playing beekeeper was published thi