I know this sounds stupid & trivial but this trichotomy, I've read it in multiple sources this week but the third is just ??
what is the third reason things look alike, convergent evolution (game theory), mimesis (copying), what else?
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maybe it is o'neill's list principle, that number 3 is special and we fill it in with irrelevant stuff if it's missing
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@literalbanana Coincidence – which (coincidentally) gives you a nice alliterative triplet. - End of conversation
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@literalbanana Strong Law of Small Numbers / pigeonhole principle. -
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@literalbanana the similarity can be in the eye of the observer - 6 more replies
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