Edit: I do think it is true that the words are correlated somehow, but I also think it is true our thoughts about the nature of that correlation are likely to be pareidolia. In this lecture by Sam Harris, around the 22:00 mark, he talks about how many studies have given us evidence that our stories about why we think what we think or why we did what we did are NOT correct—they are post hoc fabrications of the left hemisphere of the brain trying to make sense of things it doesn’t understand (ie the subconscious).
I have a strong suspicion that is not so—that the brain just chatters to itself, it’s pareidolia operating on static hiss on the neurons.
Edit: I do think it is true that the words are correlated somehow, but I also think it is true our thoughts about the nature of that correlation are likely to be pareidolia. In this lecture by Sam Harris, around the 22:00 mark, he talks about how many studies have given us evidence that our stories about why we think what we think or why we did what we did are NOT correct—they are post hoc fabrications of the left hemisphere of the brain trying to make sense of things it doesn’t understand (ie the subconscious).