Ok this is a great point about abstractions. Half the battle in understanding is establishing a common ground of what we’re all talking about. Often we think we’re talking about the same thing but we’re not. The term abstraction is such a broad concept that is prone to this.https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1200433290676588544 …
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 models https://twitter.com/timos_m/status/1200429999251169283 …
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 models https://twitter.com/timos_m/status/1200429999251169283 …
