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by manuelabeledo 1010 days ago
The most stereotypical kid drawing is of themselves in a house with their parents. They do not need to sample other drawings to get to that.

Regardless, if we go back a few centuries, humans definitely demonstrated their ability to physically draw on paper, without sampling from sources other than their eyes.

But even if we were to consider that human eyes are effectively a way to “collect” samples, that’s another thing not taken into account in the aforementioned article.