[js1138]

He's discussing the role of chance and purpose in the universe, and the blue part expresses his doubts about his conclusions.

Actually his wording is similar to things being said by cognitive neuroscientists.

Science is, in its own way, an institution cobbled together to overcome some of our mental shortcomings. Primarily our tendency to see patterns in ambiguous stimuli and to attribute cause and effect to phenomena that occur near to each other in time.

[PatrickHenry]

Science is, in its own way, an institution cobbled together to overcome some of our mental shortcomings. Primarily our tendency to see patterns in ambiguous stimuli and to attribute cause and effect to phenomena that occur near to each other in time.

How lyrical. It reminds me of a judge's opinion that a contract is an attempt to substitute certainty for serendipity.