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The tendency to perceive meaningful connections or patterns in the act of pattern-perception itself. It's seeing apophenia everywhere, even in places where it's a legitimate analytical tool. This is the skeptic's cognitive trap: you become so vigilant against false patterns that you start to see the bias of apophenia as the primary explanation for any proposed connection, including valid ones. You mistake the map of cognitive errors for the territory of reality, creating a blind spot where genuine synchronicity or causality is dismissed as just another mental glitch.
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