Can I tell you a secret: YOUR BRAIN IS A PATTERN SEEKING MACHINE.

If you give it a pattern, it will try to find it EVERYWHERE.

(Look at Deep Dream. Just a silly example.)

But it's notoriously difficult to give it a pattern of your liking, because it's in charge and tries to pick the patterns based on everything else you've been feeding it.

If you feed it conspiracy crap from bullshit-baffles-brains sites, it will "see the light" there.

If you feed it equations from physics handbooks, it will "see the light" there.

SO WATCH WHAT YOU FEED YOUR BRAIN.

Do you know why it takes so long to learn stuff, and why sometimes you don't "get" something... but then days later you do? Because your brain physically has to grow the tree of connections that can accommodate the idea. In a way, it's a miracle that we can learn anything that we didn't know before.

Want to hear something funny? What if the universe is inside a black hole? And it's mandelbrot shaped. You see... all this is utterly pointless from a practical viewpoint... because what if it is?! SO WHAT!!! How does that affect your life? What does it allow you to do that you couldn't do before?