Fair enough, humans seek to make ties between two unrelated events that occur to try to comprehend and digest the world around them more. Beitman goes, adding “Our perceptions of coincidence emerge from swirls of information in our minds that match events and our surroundings.” This supports the notion that the human mind attaches meaning to occasions that are perhaps inherently meaningless, however, our minds do not dismiss them as such for several reasons: “significance of time intervals, similarity of events, degree of surprise, and ownership” (Beitman 2011).
