Picture-data presented to the visual cortex can be for novel situations. It might be the only evidence for the truth of the matter seen. It would seem that criteria for correct seeing should still exist. Therefore saying that the picture is artifical is not particularly relevant. It being artificial might be that it is likely to present an edge case that would not be encountered naturally. But seeing phenomena that are totally unlike anything encountered previuosly is a thing that living organisms might need to deal with. In order to build a working behavoiur for novel situations it is important that the sense organ behaves consistently and not randomly (if truly no criteria then random noise would be valid behaviour) even if the consistentcy that is settled on is picked arbitrarily.
Picture-data presented to the visual cortex can be for novel situations. It might be the only evidence for the truth of the matter seen. It would seem that criteria for correct seeing should still exist. Therefore saying that the picture is artifical is not particularly relevant. It being artificial might be that it is likely to present an edge case that would not be encountered naturally. But seeing phenomena that are totally unlike anything encountered previuosly is a thing that living organisms might need to deal with. In order to build a working behavoiur for novel situations it is important that the sense organ behaves consistently and not randomly (if truly no criteria then random noise would be valid behaviour) even if the consistentcy that is settled on is picked arbitrarily.