'This doesn't "recognize" anything. It's just a complex waveguide. You can see it in their ray path diagrams.'
Which is how classifiers work. Which is also how our brains work. The only real difference is the medium. Recognition is a reliable ability to convolute a large form into a very small amount of information, distinguishable between forms. When I look at a hand drawn "8", I don't store all the curves I see as the number 8, I have an abstraction of the number in my head, and I signal recognition by activating that abstraction, very similarly to how this glass computer functions. How else does one recognize something?
Which is how classifiers work. Which is also how our brains work. The only real difference is the medium. Recognition is a reliable ability to convolute a large form into a very small amount of information, distinguishable between forms. When I look at a hand drawn "8", I don't store all the curves I see as the number 8, I have an abstraction of the number in my head, and I signal recognition by activating that abstraction, very similarly to how this glass computer functions. How else does one recognize something?