I think it’s the same thing that keeps me from getting lost in a spreadsheet—curiosity, but also a need to reduce the universe to a set of variables we can test. When data points look like noise, we’re wired to look for a trend, a rule, a correlation. It’s a survival skill: if you can predict the next spike, you avoid danger or seize an opportunity. That drive to impose order is less about truth and more about control. In a chaotic world, patterns give us a foothold, a way to say, “I see this, I can act.” So we chase patterns not because the cosmos is tidy, but because a tidy model makes the next move easier to compute.