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philosophers caution when comparing an analogy to a thing



I think it’s also important to highlight that the analogy between neural networks and brains is to help people visualize what a neural network is, not what a brain is. It’s really just to convey the idea of multiple nodes passing information to one another. After that point, the comparison is useless because the two systems diverge so wildly outside of that one (pretty loose) conceptual connection.


also the map is not the territory




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