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From the various topics of discussion this past week, I found the “Harvard Law of Animal Behavior” to be very interesting. It seems as though the human brain has a strong desire to assign a pattern or some kind of logical system to everything around it, even though that is not always the case- as was observed with the crickets. I wonder why the human brain developed in such a way that it constantly searches for some sort of logic or pattern and why didn’t it develop to allow humans to always do as they please, which is what other animals seem to do. Is it perhaps from the vast amount of “boxes” in our brain that allow for so much processing- the only way to make sense of everything that’s going on is to attempt to group different things? Are all the connections that humans make actually true outside of human perception or merely a product of the brains desire for “grouping”? Are there more things in nature that are really just the way they are for no particular reason in the same way that researchers observed that animals act as they please? How many connections exist because our brain wants it to exist not necessarily because it exists in nature?