Humans evolved to track fast-moving objects, uncertainty, and tribal competition.
Sports hijack prediction circuitry.
AI hijacks prediction circuitry too — but in symbolic space.
Football trains the nervous system on trajectories.
AI trains it on ideas, narratives, probabilities, futures.
That’s why both can feel addictive, transcendent, tribal, even spiritual.
AI is basically hockey on steroids for the cortex.
Not a cult.
Just ancient brains meeting infinite signal.
600B was never just the price.
It was the signal.
