> there is no reason to believe a connection between the mechanical model and what happens in organisms has been established
The universal approximation theorem. And that's basically it. The rest is empirical.
No matter which physical processes happen inside the human brain, a sufficiently large neural network can approximate them. Barring unknowns like super-Turing computational processes in the brain.
The universal approximation theorem. And that's basically it. The rest is empirical.
No matter which physical processes happen inside the human brain, a sufficiently large neural network can approximate them. Barring unknowns like super-Turing computational processes in the brain.