Seong-lae ChoGrowth as a Human Through Indirect Experience
Through fiction, we reach a deeper understanding of the processes by which events unfold
Works that open up new worldviews for people possess artistic merit in themselves
Fiction Notion
Fiction Tools
소설의 문제는 너무 말이 된다는 것이다. 그에 반해 현실은 말이 안되는 일 투성이 - 앨더스 헉슬리
Dreams are not meaningless byproducts, but rather evolved to prevent Overfitting in the brain and aid generalization. Just as deep learning uses noise injection and Dropout to prevent overfitting, dreams provide the brain with distorted, sparse, and hallucinatory inputs: the sparsity, hallucination, and narrative that differ from reality are precisely the "intentional corruption" that favors generalization.
In other words, dreams expose the brain to high-entropy data that differs from existing data, preventing overfitting Model Collapse. This means the brain continuously generates its own Synthetic Dataset for self-training, thereby generalizing its performance
This explains the phenomenology of dreams (their strangeness) better than Memory Consolidation or emotional regulation theories. Sleep (especially dream) deprivation → memorization remains intact but ability to respond to new situations declines. Dreams contribute to performance recovery after repeated overtraining. Fiction like novels and films can also help generalization like "artificial dreams"
