Visual knowledge can be decomposed into a limited set of primitives and operations. Whereas textual knowledge can accumulate arbitrarily and is bounded only by

Visual knowledge can be decomposed into a limited set of primitives and operations. Whereas textual knowledge can accumulate arbitrarily and is bounded only by time. It’s the difference between learning a book of sports facts (language) and what sports facts look like (vision). Another example would be those passages in the Bible that list all the things owned by some person. There is a simple grammar to generate those passages. But learning them required more memory.