The "ah-ha..!! " moment is merely part of our brain's proclivity to make sense out of random data.. Here is an article from the Washington post:
"You Can't Help It: Our Impulse to Connect the Dots Is Pre-Wired"
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"The human brain is a master of the connect-the-dots game, drawing heavily on its ability to remember the past, make associations in the present and come to conclusions about the future. Indeed, our brains are such talented and overzealous extrapolators that we regularly see patterns where none exist: Given a random array of dots on a page, people will almost always say they recognize a shape or image. "The brain is organized for detecting correlations in the world," says Charles Stevens, a neuroscientist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif. "We depend on that capacity to stay alive."
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Whom among us hasn't had many of those moments..?? For origin of article see:
You Can't Help It: Our Impulse to Connect the Dots Is Pre-Wired (washingtonpost.com)