I suppose it was assumed it was working in a "divide and conquer" manner, since that usually leads to a complexity reduction of algorithms? (and it was then ass

I suppose it was assumed it was working in a "divide and conquer" manner, since that usually leads to a complexity reduction of algorithms? (and it was then assumed that the division was a clear region over the previous layer) Of course there's no real need for the network to work that way, and perhaps this interpretation can be made if we assume that divisions are "fuzzy"/arbitrary.