It doesn't have to, no. But come on that's not really what is meant here. It does need to understand certain properties of owls, even if "arrangement of pixels

It doesn't have to, no. But come on that's not really what is meant here. It does need to understand certain properties of owls, even if "arrangement of pixels that look like an eye near arrangement of pixels that look like a beak" is as far as it gets. Though as in another thread it is not necessarily the owl (you would need to do something like rendering a la Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) to get closer to some perfect comprehension of an owl.