[voxic11]

Maybe human brains are constantly generating (and training on) massive amounts of synthetic data and that is how they get so smart?

[timeinput]

You mean those like 8 hours of ~~nightmares~~ dreams I have every night?

[garspin]

I doubt it. Brains run at only a few operations per second.... GPUS at TFLOPS. There just isn't enough bandwidth.

My brain only needs to get mugged in a dark alley by a guy in a hoodie once to learn something.

[anthonypasq]

This sentence really struck me in a particular way. Very interesting. It does seem like thoughts/stream of consciousness is just your brain generating random tokens to itself and learning from it lol.

[jimbokun]

What experiment could be run to test this hypothesis?