  No, my position is that the ter'angreal is getting its information from what I (for want of a better term) have called genetic memory; the thing that makes Mat and Perrin start speaking the Old Tongue randomly in TEOTW. I'm assuming the ter'angreal functions in such a way as to extrapolate this data from the DNA of the Aiel who enter it, and my evidence for this is both the fact that it only shows the lives of ancestors, and the fact that it discriminates genetically:  