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> I hate computer analogies ... neural network.

Isn't this a biological analogy?

He's already talking about a biological phenomenon, and describing it using an analogy to machine learning neural nets, so the analogy is not biological.

>an analogy to machine learning neural nets, so the analogy is not biological.

Except that "neural nets" are only "neural" by a (biological) analogy to neurons.

So he is describing a biological phenomemon by comparison to a a type of machine learning which is itself described by the very same biological phenomenon he's trying to describe.

(nothing personal)

This is why I hate them.

They only hold up at the level of analogy.

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