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Peter Woit is quoted in the previous post as saying that
"Deluding oneself by seeing deep connections
in unrelated events is a common human problem."

Namely . . .

The term occurred in a recent miniseries, "The Queen's Gambit,"
in dialogue by screenwriter Scott Frank.  "Apophenia" is not  in the
book  of the same title, by the much better writer Walter Tevis.

The original version of the fictional LIFE Magazine interview —

The version by Scott Frank —

As for the phrase "an entire world of just 64 squares," also  not in the book,
some mathematicians may recall the definition of impolite numbers .
The reader may supply his or her own impolite commentary.

This book was not in the original novel, and its title is plagiarized.

Blame screenwriter Scott Frank, not Gambit  author Walter Tevis.

Related material:

The previous post, and Gambit  star Anya Taylor-Joy
in The Witch: A New England Folktale  (2015).

See as well, from the late-October Strogatz date above —