I'd argue that your brain is doing what it always does with visual stimuli - Trying to find a recognizable pattern in a field of arbitary input. But in this case the image your brain is trying to find patterns in has, at most, highly distorted partial pieces of recognizable objects, so your brain has to try to tease out meaning from that distorted imagery. It's like a puzzle.
I'd argue that your brain is doing what it always does with visual stimuli - Trying to find a recognizable pattern in a field of arbitary input. But in this case the image your brain is trying to find patterns in has, at most, highly distorted partial pieces of recognizable objects, so your brain has to try to tease out meaning from that distorted imagery. It's like a puzzle.
Exactly.
But the puzzle is one that has no relation to any human experience.
That's what makes it so cool.
Neither does looking at shapes in clouds or reading tea leaves or anything. It's all random and inanimate.
Humans don't write programs that generate clouds.
They grow, harvest, and brew tea so what's your point