What the Dog-Fish and Camel-Bird can tell us about how our brains work

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One of the psychadelic nightmares generated by Google’s Inceptionism system. Google Research

You may have seen some of the “nightmarish” images generated by Google’s aptly named Inceptionism project. Here we have freakish fusions of dogs and knights (as in the image above), dumbells with arms attached (see below) and a menagerie of Hieronymus Bosch-ian creatures: