It's simply the human instinct to seek links and fill in the details of a plausible story to make it whole and coherent.

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Following any loss, the overwhelming human instinct is to try to rebuild.

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It still relies on the instinct and experience of human operators, but it makes better use of their time by editing out all the boring bits.

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Then there is a human sporting instinct to root for the underdog.

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The monks are human, and they rage and doubt, torn between a survival instinct to leave and a spiritual calling to stay.

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As human beings, we have a primal instinct to instantaneously profile people, the weather, inanimate objects, and situations.

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