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\nAccording to current research, we look up while thinking because the same brain structures involved in thinking evolved from pre-existing neural connections for searching visually. The same reason you move your eyes to search for a...\nAccording to current research, we look up while thinking because the same brain structures involved in thinking evolved from pre-existing neural connections for searching visually. The same reason you move your eyes to search for a physical object may also play a role in your eye’s movements when searching for answers.

Furthermore, it’s easy to see why most of us look to the heavens when thinking, as though we are trying to converse with God. In increasingly desperate times, we might be praying, but we are also actively looking up to tune out the noise of our surroundings.\n
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2024
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