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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what if you replace the word "brains" with "small populations of neurons" or "in vitro-neuronal cultures"? because ANN can describe those quite well, in particular SNNs with local learning etc.
I would actually be more comfortable with that, with all the usual concerns about in vitro not necessarily being a good model of in vivo applying.
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@tyrell_turing I think this is a very promising starting point for a common understanding of ANNs as model of neural systems, such as populations of neurons or in-vitro neuronal cultures for example.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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