I mean, it's some sort of bio-chemical imbalance, right? Why does it cause so many of the people affected to see conspiracy patterns?
I guess in there is a generate-and-filter system that generates all the possible explanations for things, and filters out the improbable ones. If the filter isn't strong enough the crazy ones get through. But what about the ones that are right
but nobody's thought of it.
I guess it could also go the other way, desperately looking for connections where there aren't any. Is that inductive vs deductive?
Another piece of the puzzle of intelligence, and for me, more more interestingly, the question of limits of intelligence.