> The brain can basically simulate the rendering equation in real time (or trick yourself into thinking it is, which is the same thing really.)
I always wonder about this. It occurs to me that it may seem to perfectly real because the brain is able to reproduce all, or close to all, of the features it would use to try to classify that object in real life, which would lead to it seeming like a 100% match, or 100% real.
I guess you could think of it as passing a dataset back into a machine learning algorithm that was just trained using that dataset.
It also makes me wonder what would happen if you try to conjure a specific animal or place that you know a little about, but are fuzzy details. Would you brain feel like "yup. this is the thing because it's absolutely everything I know about the thing; it's perfect" or would it have problems?
Of course, I'm not an expert in brains or machine learning, so this is just my wild speculation on my thought.
One of the freakiest lucid dreaming experiences I had was when I had a conversation in my lucid dream with a friend of mine while I was completely aware that it was a dream. We were having a conversation about how my mind was controlling what they said but yet it felt like a completely normal conversation, where I had no way to predict exactly what they were going to reply with. Bizarre.
I always wonder about this. It occurs to me that it may seem to perfectly real because the brain is able to reproduce all, or close to all, of the features it would use to try to classify that object in real life, which would lead to it seeming like a 100% match, or 100% real.
I guess you could think of it as passing a dataset back into a machine learning algorithm that was just trained using that dataset.
It also makes me wonder what would happen if you try to conjure a specific animal or place that you know a little about, but are fuzzy details. Would you brain feel like "yup. this is the thing because it's absolutely everything I know about the thing; it's perfect" or would it have problems?
Of course, I'm not an expert in brains or machine learning, so this is just my wild speculation on my thought.