If it was actual noise it would have absolute minimal statistical chance of having any coherent structure.
So "meaningful" output doesn't necessarily mean the input wasn't random.
Last nights had Donald Trump, my wife and Jennifer Love Hewitt. There were riots going on and people reading newspapers with moving video ink. There was an old book called "The Fall" that was filled with fascinating ink drawings of ritualistic acts (eg: a man sat cross legged on broken fragments of his own arms). Etc. That kind of stuff. Had a full story.
Noise on the line in Brain-space could still be the case, but if so we can learn something from that noise regarding the way brain structures work.
What I'm saying is if it is just noise, then the noise must be feeding into an entire projective area of creativity that amplifies that noise, not just locally but over time, and in ways that maintain consistency.
Really fascinates me
I've had some dreams like short sci-fi stories. Some with time travel/causality loop tangles as plot. Some with twists. Complex character and places.
Mangled data with structure are not noise -- at worse they contain some noise (like a dirty dataset).
E.g. noise in the brain might be an increased incidence of errant impulses/signals. There's evidence that sleep involves pruning meaningless connections - noise in this case might mean signals propagating farther than they ought.
Noise was meant in an abstract way, not statistically random noise you see in physical circuits.
Exactly!
I've seen very specific semblances in coffee spills, knot-holes, etc. The reason they're not movie-like is because they're still and static, and not connected directly to my brain.
Dreams have the advantage of being on the bare wires, whereas Rorschach tests and the like are air-gapped.
