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The dignified way to describe the problem at hand is alluding to Brouwer's fixed-point theorem[1], with white noise as the fixed point.

The more practical way is alluding to The Human Centipede[2].

Either way, the feed-back loop doesn't result in a good output.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer_fixed-point_theorem

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Centipede_(First_Seq...

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Also the data processing inequality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_processing_inequality?use...

And yet I prefer now to early big bang era of the universe, though technically reversible.

The universe is not a Markov chain, in fact, no one knows what it is but locally we do know that entropy increases and the inevitable endpoint in our corner of the universe is complete annihilation. Your preferences are completely irrelevant in the local scheme of things.

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