Comment by danielwmayer
Comment by danielwmayer 2 days ago
I was immediately struck when I looked down at just the boardwalk how similar it felt to being on LSD. I am continually astounded with how similar these systems end up seeming to how our brain works. May just be happy coincidences but I am pretty sold on there being true parallels that will only become more and more apparent.
A lot of people mentioned this! The "dreamlike" comparison is common as well. In both cases, you have a network of neurons rendering an image approximating the real world :) so it sort of makes sense.
Regarding the specific boiling-textures effect: there's a tradeoff in recurrent world models between jittering (constantly regenerating fine details to avoid accumulating error) and drifting (propagating fine details as-is, even when that leads to accumulating error and a simplified/oversaturated/implausible result). The forest trail world is tuned way towards jittering (you can pause with `p` and step frame-by-frame with `.` to see this). So if the effect resembles LSD, it's possible that LSD applies some similar random jitter/perturbation to the neurons within your visual cortex.