If the cat was perfectly still, not twitching and neither were you, it would be one sample. With both entities moving, you are getting constant, discrete samples of what a "cat" is.
Re:A New Twist on Neural Networks
by ben-schaaf on Thursday November 02, 2017 @10:18PM
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I think what the GP means is that there are no discrete samples and the information stream is instead one continuous sample.
Why does that count as 3000 - 10,000 samples? Why is it not a single sample? I don't think our brains sample image in that way. And that might be a fundamental difference between how humans process images and how we're expecting computers to do it.