Digital cameras don’t capture "real reality." Like any sensor, they distort by upscaling low-resolution data into sharp images. Yet, they still outperform human vision. Our fovea provides high-resolution detail in only about 2°. The rest of the roughly 190° field is blurry, patched together by the brain into the illusion of a seamless, detailed world. What we see isn’t reality—it’s a cognitive construction. This is why physical AI systems trained solely on human perceptual images will never truly understand reality.
Digital cameras don’t capture "real reality." Like any sensor, they distort by upscaling low-resolution data into sharp images. Yet, they still outperform human vision. Our fovea provides high-resolution detail in only about 2°. The rest of the roughly 190° field is blurry, patched together by the brain into the illusion of a seamless, detailed world. What we see isn’t reality—it’s a cognitive construction. This is why physical AI systems trained solely on human perceptual images will never truly understand reality.