As Humans, Why Do We Perceive Order in Random Events?

As humans, we all have a great eagerness to make sense of our world. Does this mean that we don't see the world as it truly appears? Is our world an illusion through the eyes of a human? Our brain distorts and decieves, however, this is a different question and subject entirely. Today, I'm going to focus on the fact that our brain tends to make patterns out of the most random groups of data, or anything else that is completely random and patternless!

You might not have even realized that you do this, but everyone does, and they do on a daily basis. You really can't get around it. This has nothing to do with your personality, either. This is shaped by the biological make up of your brain. Everyone's brains work in practically the same way, only varying to an extremely small degree. But really, our brains all work in the same way, and we all try to make patterns out of the most random formations.

For example, consider 6 coin flippings. Assumed that a coin was flipped randomly 6 times, which sequence would you expect to see? HHHTTT, HTTHTH or HHHHHH?
You have probably guessed the middle, HTTHTH, because the sequence is most in pattern, and thus seems more common to the human brain. In all actuality, each of these sequences is just as likely as the other. Since a coin flipping is random, there is no event that can possibly be more likely than another. It's just as likely to get all heads, than to get half and half, since the entire event is completely random. Your mind may tell you it's nearly impossible to get all tails, but it's just as impossible to get a HTHTHT result.

Still don't believe it? Try flipping a coin 50 times. Chances are, you're going to have some "streaks" of coin flipping. You're going to look at the 50 flipping results, and try to form patterns out of the data. In one case, heads could have flipped 5 times in a row. I'm sure that you could guarantee that the next flip was going to be tails. How can you explain these weird streaks?

There's really no need to explain them! You're only seeing them as streaks. Really, each different flip was a completely random event. These aren't "streaks", more so, it just happened to land a certain way on multiple occasions, which was a completely random effect! These are not patterns. Our brain is putting this data into patterns to make it fit for your brain to understand.

Now, I'm sure you've realized that people in general tend to make patterns out of the most random things in life. So how can we truly make the sense of anything? Just look at the bigger picture. See the world for how it is to the best of your ability!