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Tue 09 Sep 2006Human brain wired to believe in supernatural, says scientistA majority of us believe in ghosts, magic and fortune tellers - not just because we want to but because we have to. Our brains are programmed to find supernatural explanations for the mysteries of our world, a professor told a major science conference in Britain yesterday.Prof Bruce Hood argues that our brains are designed to organise sensory information and establish cause and effect. Even babies of 12 months are able to do this, implying it is innate rather than learned.