astonished that anyone knowledgeable could claim that neural nets are (obviously) an “abstraction of neural processing” when we don’t yet know how brains work. if you don’t know how Y works you can’t really speak with certainty about whether X is an abstraction of Y. Period.https://twitter.com/tyrell_turing/status/1200072223299657728 …
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Chemistry is an abstraction of physics, even while fundamental questions remain in the underlying layer...
at the moment we understand both chemistry and physics way way way better than we understand neuroscience.
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Huge mysteries remain everywhere but that is irrelevant to the matter of whether ANNs are some kind of abstraction
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but relevant to how much confidence we should be expressing
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