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The real fallacy is calling neural networks the analogue of animal brains. We still have a lot of research to accomplish in this sphere.


They aren't. You're looking for "hebbian learning". Very different from neural networks.

In 50 years people will laugh about how poorly these things were named. Just like we now laugh about what symbol we chose for a source of electrons in a circuit : "+". Whoops.




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