![](https://media.kbin.social/media/a6/4a/a64a92aac2af50e601ab6369a15a94a4a167d52ba49c6c8da336e2201be90092.jpg)
![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeehaw.org%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fc0e83ceb-b7e5-41b4-9b76-bfd152dd8d00.png)
The person who painted that landscape has certainly been influenced by prior artists, is not the first person to have painted a landscape, and is creating a work directly derivative of nature itself. They didn’t appear from thin air a fully-formed human being and start painting the hills. The person filming a cat video has seen videos before. They know to hold their phone at a certain angle and in a certain orientation to get the view they want of the cat, and that also does not spring from a vacuum. These two artists are each the sum total of their own experiences, their training sets. The difference between inference and extrapolation in this context is only a matter of complexity.
Collar.