Before we dive in detail of neural DeepDream, let's take a glance at a similar behavior we humans experience ourselves. Have you ever tried to look for shapes in clouds, the jitter and noisy signals in your television set or even seen a face burned into your toast?
Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon that leads us to see patterns in a random stimulus; the tendency for humans to perceive a face or pattern where one actually doesn't exist. This often results in assigning human characteristics to objects. Please note the significance of the evolutionary consequences of seeing a pattern where there is none (a false positive) as opposed to failing to see a pattern where there is one (a false negative). For example, seeing a lion where this is no lion is rarely lethal; however, failing to see a predatory lion where there is one, of course, would often be...
