The author assumes that evolution should somehow optimize data bandwidth but this is a super faulty understanding of how evolution works. A trait like intellig

The author assumes that evolution should somehow optimize data bandwidth but this is a super faulty understanding of how evolution works. A trait like intelligence is only valuable to the extent it increases an organisms fitness or number of nonsterile offspring. Witness millions of years animal evolution of organisms that had better or equivalent visual systems to humans but paltry brains. There are some possible examples of data augmentation that might be interesting to consider though. For example, our eyes are constantly making small involuntary movements at a rate we mostly do not consciously notice. In that sense we're getting a feed of slightly transformed and translated images every few milliseconds