this icon 
is arguably an abstraction of an airplane, but tells us little about how airplanes work
this icon 
doesn’t tell us how brains work & is not constrained by how brains work
deep nets may prove to be more like icons than bona fide, empirically useful neural modelshttps://twitter.com/timos_m/status/1200429999251169283 …
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They use a deep net to predict neural responses in the visual cortex. (Yamins et al., 2014)https://www.pnas.org/content/111/23/8619 …
it's a start, but a correlation with post hoc selected models that explain at most half of the "explainable" variance in a single task is at most an invitation to study more. as any good cognitive psychologist knows, multiple models often yield similar behavioral profiles.
