Is putting meaning to random garbage "wrong" somehow? People do that with the events of their lives, most of which have a sense to them but many of which really do not.
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Yes. It is attesting agency and intent into that random garbage. This neglects your own ability to see patterns in chaos. Pattern is the wrong word. Beauty might be better.
On a clinical and trivial level, we can say, our brain is hardwired to make connections. Probably to predict things. If you can't move anyways and eat what you can filter out of the sea water, why develop a brain. But if you can move, you need to avoid danger and seek things that help to procreate. Like food, shelter, other types of your kind. If you do not understand your surroundings to a degree, your prediction organ and memory cannot help there.
We are bipeds with actuators. We hunt by running and by throwing things. We can even do both at the same time. But the physical capabilities to throw acurate are seriously lacking with muscles and nerves as a mechanism. It should not be possible, yet we can do it. By brain power and spatial awareness. The required brain power to increase range is stupendously expensive. But if you have no fangs and claws, it is what will bring food in your stomach.
But brain power is general purpose and can be used for other things... ;-) All this is a theory I once heard to explain evolution of brain, and why we have "intelligence" and our closest cousins have not. It is very expensive and not needed, as all the animals prove. The payload of having a better brain is just not rewarding in the beginning. But it is, if you need it to throw better, just as predators have better teeth, can smell better, and so on. And they did find a lot of throwing stones in or near water holes.
This also explains why we like music and sports with any type of ball. Even the fascination for guns. We like that stuff, because it appeals to something our brain evolved to be good at. Music is timing and timing is needed to release that stone in the right moment to throw with those pesky slow nerve impulses.
Anyways, that predition organ of ours is very good at seeing patterns and making connections to previous knowledge, so good, it even sees patterns and things, that are not there. Like seeing things in cloud shapes.
That much of our lives now is in the abstract does not change that ability. We can even use it for completely abstract or invented things, and also to create such things. For fun. Or to express ourselves. To appreciate artisanship of others or cleverly hide an abstract meaning in a digital work. Or to apply a thing we see to another situation.
Putting meaning to random garbage is wrong, because it leads to superstition. We want simple answers and control. It makes the chaos around us more bearable. You can absolutely see the similarites and have a chuckle about the irony or weird coincidences. But if you seriously take a meaning of it, you will hence forth knock on wood, avoid ladders and black cats, the number 13, or burn some old women with a funny nose, just to make sure - she made your milk spoil and the crops bad, ever since she moved to your village, after all.
To end this philosophical rant on a lighter note, we also like games because of our expensive brains. They want to be entertained, and playing a game, or appreciation of a story, art, music or even the search for deeper meaning the art, will all provide such entertainment. We like that stuff. And we like to craft. And to argue, including about art ;-)
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But that parsing of things is so advanced and non simple, that all sorts of disturbances can happen. On the other hand, our capability is also so immensly large, that most of those variances make no difference in every day life. Only, every day life became quite complicated.
Our brain is also master in lying to itself and ignoring things. And to invent things. Seeing connections in unrelated things and creating a conspiracy theory out of it, seems quite normal compared to that.
Noteable would be the thing with counting basketball players and not seeing a gorilla walk past the screen. Or how they managed to induce a fake memory about a childhood event in some participants - they would just invent the details themselves. Much of the supernatural people claim to have experienced can be sufficiently explained by this. You need not be sick to see ghosts in shadows. That is just your brain doing it's thing.
But that thing is also what let's us appreciate art. See a mustache wearing plumber in a red suit, instead of a bunch of pixels.