Comment by isseu

You can think of DL as a model to explore huge solution spaces, is clearly not the only one but looking at things with some models sometimes makes much more sense and DL has been extremely useful. Is true than real neurons and artificial ones are different but "both are systems that perform complex tasks via the updating of weights within an astronomically large parameter space.". The brain is clearly not using the same mechanisms but it probably have some of the same problems and looking it from a DL perspective (that we understand better than the brain) could help us understand it better.