What is it?
These lights are all initially synchronized, but almost immediately drift out of sync. We sense patterns in the resulting noise. You may use the provided switch to turn them off and on.
To my mind, a lot of modern life boils down to finding patterns: matching things together, making theories that fit the data. Yes or no, us versus them. This was a useful talent for hunter-gatherers: seeing a pattern in the underbrush could mean the difference between eating or starving. But today I suspect that we detect less helpful patterns. We find signals in the noise, whether it’s there or not; Skinner’s pigeons, hopping one-footed.
