Noun
apophenia (countable and uncountable, plural apophenias)
(psychology) The perception of or belief in connectedness among unrelated phenomena.
Hyponyms: pareidolia, Monte Carlo fallacy
Humans find meaningfulness where none exists because we want to create a sense of order in this chaotic universe. It's called apophenia. (And it's also the reason people believe in God.) Megan McCafferty
Apophenia main Apophenia, also known as patternicity, citation citation or agenticity, citation is the human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns within random data. Source: Internet