@ ajalkane

well...cameras or phones or computers or Supercomputers or AI or even SI will have a long long long way to go...even with herculean jumps in advancement of tech to mimic what a human eye does...and the information and data it transmits to the brain..
knowingly or unknowingly..
let alone in as compact a size as the human eye itself..

One of the interesting things about an education in fine arts and music that may surprise folks is that there is a great amount of study of not just proportion, distance, dimension, colour and music and physics and other natural laws in art...it is a given to understand ..as well as skeletal, tendon, muscle, organs and their functions and movements and limits, of not just human, but animal as well. So as to be able to render a subject in a scene that is not bending beyond its natural structural capabilities in said scene so as to look "natural" in all aspects...thus fooling the eye.
Some of the more interesting disciplines are to be able to understand dimension for application.
a basic one is to say...is to look at an apple and study it...every square inch. how the light source reflects off it how the environment interacts with it.
When one becomes proficient at this one can see in the mind ...the apple...and all around it. even see behind the apple and inside the apple...and the environment one wishes to construct for the apple to inhabit.
If anyone does this and studies the apple one notices as well the apple is not separate from the environment but welded to it.
There will be areas where the "edge" of the apple disappears into shadows as equally as smears into an area where light seems to invade the "edge" of the apple that is seen.
This type of work is to aid artisans consciously to see and be aware of the dimensional world about us all, that most subconsciously or instinctively only deal with.

The eye is a very very very exceptional tool.
Unlikely to be replicated any time soon.

For example the data that the brain receives from viewing colour alone ...is staggering.
And the incredible function of what the eye manages in collecting that data ...even more staggering.

Just for one example.
(and I know myself I still decades later cannot help but look in absolute wonder and awe ...every now and then ...when I see the colour in question...even still..and I know many will be equally haunted by this once they read it.)

Find anything that has this colour in it.


whether man made or natural.

Now that I have exposed you to this colour.
This is what happens to your eyes.
The moment you looked at it.
The physical characteristics of it are that the nature of the colour yellow vibrates at a molecular level to be able to be visible for us.
For the human eye to discern the colour you just saw,
the molecules in the human eye must set up a corresponding speed to the same rhythm of the colour yellow.

That speed of the molecules in the human eye recognizing that colour yellow are vibrating so many times a second.

A glance at the colour yellow ...
for the eye ..
the number of vibrations the molecules do and the data transmit thereby are the equivalent to the number of all the waves that have washed up on every shore of Earth since the dawn of our planet.
In that one moment.

I doubt that our tech will be able to achieve the insane and mad grace and sophistication of the human eye , the amount of data that is understood, converted, transmitted and received and understood consciously or unconsciously by the human mind.