Now those are adults one can relate to.  
@redweasel  
I bet our moods don’t affect what patterns we see. As you wrote, it wouldn’t be effective.

neural networks are not actually accurate models of brain structure, but the brain itself has neural networks within its more complex model. the recent example of the neural network able to see pictures in clouds illustrates this, because the part of our brain that recognizes patterns, such as seeing things in clouds, is analagous to a neural network, but our ability to assign those recognized patterns to semantic ideas is something neural networks cannot accomplish very effectively.
 
what I want to know is how do those semantic relationships affect our pattern recognition neural network? when you’re in a bad mood, does that condition the network beforehand to recognize negative things in clouds, or does the network somehow sample from our current mood as it performs pattern recognition? if the latter were true you couldn’t call it a neural network, but it doesn’t seem like a very efficient way to think, so it’s probably the former.