That’s a very good analogy, which works astonishingly well in giving people a reasonable expectation.
The question I’m having though is: How different are we from that? The nature of a Markov-Chain is that you can describe just about anything with it.
The following description is correct, isn’t it? Our “thoughts” are generated as some function of our integrated past sensory input (scare quotes because I don’t want to talk about what exactly a thought is)