![]() ![]() Palilalia, also known as repeating sentences disorder, occurs when the speaker repeats their sentence, or a portion of. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us. Echopraxia is the involuntary and immediate repetition of physical actions. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. ![]() And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there weren't any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. ![]()
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