You speak as if a human being shown Pacman for the first time and figuring out the controls doesn't require a ton of data. There's so much data that goes into t

You speak as if a human being shown Pacman for the first time and figuring out the controls doesn't require a ton of data. There's so much data that goes into that. You have tens of billions of photons entering your eye during that playtime. This is sensory information that your brain decodes and reintegrates on the fly, then relays to the required parts of your body. Could you have experienced all of that without seeing Pacman? Probably not. Once you have seen and played Pacman enough, you can probably imagine an entire instance in your mind. That's because we are good at storing and retrieving certain kinds of data. The data was required in the first place, though.