OK, so it did happen in front of you.
But this doesn’t mean you necessarily have to claim any credit for it.
Not even if you were the only one to notice…
Or to understand what was going on!

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc is considered to be a fallacy.
A logical fallacy based on a confusion. Correlation is not causation, right?
Then why so many people continue to ‘indulge’ in this habit? Even after they’ve been ‘prompted’ about this…?

Evolutionary speaking, fallacies should not be able to survive, right?

But… but…?!?

OK, let me put it the other way around.
Fallacies have already survived for long enough. For us to pay attention!
Let me propose an explanation for their survival.

“Logical fallacies survive and thrive because they are often highly persuasive, psychologically comforting, and cognitively efficient, despite being logically unsound. They function as mental shortcuts (heuristics) that allow people to navigate complex information without rigorous, time-consuming analysis”.
“Ultimately, fallacies survive because they work as tools for social interaction, debate, and emotional management, making them difficult to eradicate from human discourse.“

According to Gemini, the intelligence perusing the internet when we google something, fallacies survive simply because we’re comfortable using them.

‘We’re comfortable using them’?!? You’re not making much sense… ‘We’ consider them to be ‘wrong’ – as in “fallacious” – and you say “we’re comfortable using them”…

OK. Let me point your attention to the difference between we – as a collection of individuals happening to be in the same mess but fierce-fully guarding our individualitIES – and the collective WE. A group of people – a collective, a society or even the entire species – engaging in the same behavior. Knowingly, unknowingly and anywhere in between.

We’re made from the same ‘cloth’. Dust if you will…
We ‘work’ according to the same ‘rules’. In the sense that we share 99.99% of our DNA. Or more…
The fact that we’re so different, individually speaking, is the ‘strange’ thing. The marvelous thing!
We shouldn’t be so cross when noticing how much we have in common…

The tendency to indulge in fallacies, even after understanding they are ‘wrong’.
The tendency to appropriate credit when none is due to us…

You still expect me to keep my promise?
An evolutionary explanation for why we keep indulging in fallacies?
Come back tomorrow!