[caddemon]

Humans are actually born with blurry vision as the eye takes time to develop, so human learning starts with low resolution images. There is a theory that this is not really a limitation but a benefit in developing our visual processing systems. People in poorer countries that get cataracts removed when they are a bit older and should at that point hardware-wise have perfect vision do still seem to have some lifelong deficits.

It's not entirely known how much early learning in low resolution makes a difference in humans, and obviously that could also relate more to our specific neurobiology than a general truth about learning in connectionist systems. But I found it to be an interesting idea that maybe certain outcomes with ANNs could be influenced a lot by training paradigms s.t. not all shortcomings could be addressed with only updates to the core architecture.