It can not be a coincidence

In the real world, we perceive the senses, lies another world filled with mysterious forces.  The first one you can reach.  The second you leave inoculated into the mind.  We are immune to this “psychic infection” supernatural just like little kids.
Chilean team of scientists returned from a trip to the South Shetland archipelago with a rich catch.  Eye nepokochá it, the stomach for it nesmlsne.  Ice outpost in the middle of the ocean, just a stone’s throw (and the rest of the swim) from Antarctica, hosts a unique microbes.  Microbiologists leadership Jenny Blameyovou there appeared some three hundred species from which more than two hundred kinds of science was still unknown.  Chileans brought from the South Shetland nice exotics.  They expected to hit the heavily chladnomilné microbes.  That is the South Shetland did not disappoint.  One of the local live bacteria such as frozen in the ice.  Really special is that it also defies the temperature just below boiling point.  Tolerates 95 ° C.  What is it good?  Inside her Shetland glaciers such “hot” clearly threatened.  Another eccentric of Shetland is a new kind deinokoka.  The first representative of this genus was discovered in highly radioactive water inside a nuclear reactor.  Now he found another deinokok at a depth of 15 meters under the cover of permafrost.  Lasts 5,000 times more radiation dose than any other terrestrial organism.  It’s really strange, because in nature with a level of radiation and never meet them anywhere, nor his ancestors could be exposed to it.

When you repeat what was written by Charles Darwin on natural selection, so maybe we will feel chills in the back.  It can not be a coincidence.  How on earth could evolve organisms with properties that they obviously are not any good?  They are probably the remains of extraterrestrial visitors?  It is evidence that terrestrial life concocted an intelligent creator?

There is more prosaic explanation.  Horkomilný population glacier can be seen from the time when the Antarctic and the surrounding region, there was a completely different climate than today.  Resistance to radiation may be a byproduct of the evolution of other properties much more necessary.  Radioactivity fiercely resist such as rotifers pijavenky.  In puddles, moss and other “homes” are often dry to tinder, and their genetic information while breaking up into pieces.  Evolution vycepovala pijavenky to such intense správkám damaged genetic information, it is to spray them with the aftermath of radiation cakewalk.

But no doubt zahlodal Wormtail.  Anyone who tries to find the evolution of “irrational” jihoshetlandských microbes rational explanation, it definitely gets it from mystery lovers who do not believe in coincidences, and everything looking for the mysterious effect of mysterious forces.  Where does this take us in?  Surely with the Nerodia, such as small children are not.  The results show an interesting experiment.

Scientists have offered a small child to choose between two crates.  One ball had to be concealed.  When the children have guessed that the box is hiding the ball, to keep it.  When selecting cases, children had a brief moment to reflect and then had one of them put his hand.  In a moment of reflection designed to always change your choice, and even at the last minute to lay a hand on another box, before which it previously held.  “Betrayal” is hiding the fact that the balls were in both boxes.  “Good” and “bad” scientists have simulated the response by the end of the job content of the child showed only one box.  Those children, as “guess,” opened the box, laid on the child’s hand.  Those who are “confused” opened the second box and told them: “No, the ball is there.  You see? “In the first round of experiments was a child” dried “to the impression that half of the half and guessed wrong.

In the second round, half of children repeated the task.  The second half of the children before trying to get more “mentoring”.  Scientists have told them that the room is invisible Princess Alice, whose picture hung on the wall.  This princess loves children and helping them.  If someone chose a bad chest and threatened him not getting the ball, Alice gives him any way indicate that they are wrong.

A room with a strange things were happening.  For example, the wall could fall unexpectedly picture of Princess Alice.  He could blink chandelier.  She is responsible for Alice invisible, but scientists, who threw a hole hidden image of the wall or turned a switch in the next room chandelier.  When children have voted, in which box the ball, ran one of the scientists’ supernatural phenomena. “  Children’s reactions were interesting.

If you stretched out his hand to the box selected an eight-year experiment participant familiar with the “help” Invisible Princess, and while the figure dropped or flickered light, quickly corrected the child and had reached its decision on the second box.  Children who have not received instruction on Alice, not let yourselves be swayed by the disturbing phenomenon.  Of the scientists concluded that if someone that age children deploy to head the idea of ​​supernatural phenomena, they do not lose it and act rationally in total.  When they did not předhodíme idea of ​​the supernatural, willing to grab it and begin to make decisions under it.

Only a few small children aged from five to six years, has fallen or image flashing chandelier swayed leave.  When the researchers asked them why the light flickered and fallen figure, children often respond that it is responsible invisible princess.  However, as seen by holding the intention, or even help.  Rather, they think that Alice just staggering.  One child for example, explained the fall of the image that Alice falls on earth prettier picture than the wall.  These kids obviously have a problem to see some real signs of supernatural events, although the existence of a supernatural phenomenon repeated warnings.

Three years and four children are also not let the unexpected phenomenon in the choice box swayed.  In addition to accrue “paranormal phenomena” purely natural causes.  Even if the princess heard the invisible, which somehow suggests where the hidden ball, dropping the figure to accrue sick zatlučenému flickering chandelier, and nail disorder.  Their reasoning was by far the most rational society of skeptics and Sisyphus would have been pleased with them.

So what happened to these kids anyway?  They become wiser with age and procedure předvídavější or Jack a dull boy, and fall into the snares of irrationality?  The authors of the study described above is confident that the desire to receive planted the belief in the supernatural obtain as a byproduct of other skills – the art of put yourself into the mind and ideas of others.  This can be done at different levels.  Example, you can imagine what anyone else thinks.  It is quite easy to handle and even small children.  More complicated is the idea that someone thinks something about what other people think.  In everyday life we ​​are working with strings like “I know that he knows that she knows that it knows” stretched to four different levels.  Scientists said they found some particularly disposed individuals in the chain stretching ideas to seven degrees.  Perhaps it was a street Gossips to training that Molly heard Karl say that Joseph heard Adele says that Paul heard…

Whenever in connection with an event you will hear that it can not be just an ordinary accident, because we have the innate ability to empathize with other people’s thinking tend to look at the background of real events events hidden, irrational.  We come to the absurd notions that this is what we see, can not tell you what it obviously do.  This is just an illusion.  In fact, it may be ghosts, aliens, Islamists, political opposition… I think that we can not jump these simple tricks, because we are small children.  Wrong.  Those jumping on fiškusům bacon just because we are small children.  When a small child say that figure fell by accident, credited his downfall as poorly zatlučenému nail.  When we start dospělákům policies with butter on his head to claim him where the butter could not get a chance and it’s just a result of a conspiracy, so often resist it and start with him playing his game on the mysterious conspirators in the background.  Let’s look at the world through children’s eyes and is hard to believe that the bribe is overpriced or that the loan contract is a fair business transaction.