the thing is about every week there is a paper published with groundbreaking claims, with this question in particular being very popular, trying to unify neuroscience and deep learning in some way, in search for computational foundations of AI. Mostly this is driven by success of DL in certain industrial applications.

Unfortunately most of these papers are heavy on theory but light on empirical evidence. If we follow the path of natural sciences, theory has to agree with evidence. Otherwise it's just another theory unconstrained by reality, or worse, pseudo-science.