[kijin]

Philosophically, I think you're right.

Practically, this is a problem that computers encounter whenever they are given an image and told to identify the boundaries of some object depicted in it. Instead of water droplets, we have pixels, and we have to figure out exactly which pixels are part of which objects (and to what degree, in case of partial transparency).

Having said that, I don't have high hopes that solving this philosophical "problem" will help us come up with better image processing algorithms. What we need is a scientific explanation of how human brains process visual stimuli, not a philosophical explanation of what we mean when we say there's a cloud.

[wodenokoto]

Actually a lot of this philosophy has laid the ground for a lot machine learning and language processing.

[kijin]

Laid the ground? Yes, of course! Philosophy is very good at asking important questions and inspiring research.

But helping to solve them? Don't get your hopes up. We still haven't really solved any of the questions that Socrates came up with 2400 years ago.