[shellbackground]

This pictures reminds me about what one's can see under psychedelics. All sensory input basically begins to break down to that kind of patterns, and thus reality dissolves into nothing. This is equally terrifying and liberating depends on look. The terrifying thought is that there's no-one behind this eyes and ears. The liberating thought is that if there's no-one there, then there's no-one to die.

[zkms]

> This pictures reminds me about what one's can see under psychedelics. All sensory input basically begins to break down to that kind of patterns

The neural structures in human brains that recognise edges/textures/surfaces are the same ones that generate trippy images when exposed to psychedelic drugs (or flickering light: http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jou...): http://www.math.utah.edu/~bresslof/publications/01-3.pdf

[matt4077]

have you seen "Deep Dream"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCE-QeDfXtA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPaCWJL7XI are excellent examples.

I believe for anybody who has ever tried psychedelics seeing these was a watershed moment. It seems almost impossible that an algorithm could so faithfully reproduce the experience without somehow having recreated some fundamental structure of the human brain. That is compounded by the fact that this wasn't the result of actually trying to do so, but of an open-ended experiment of creating feedback loops in NN layers.

[jdonaldson]

Seems like it isn't that reality dissolves into nothing, it's just a few channels that get overly stimulated.

[goldenkey]

The best explanation I ever heard for psychadelics was that they turn up the gain, the attenuation..on both thoughts and senses. So you get weird stuff which would normally be supressed.