It's probably just very rough "resemblance" :D It is said CNNs were "inspired" by visual field maps; I am 100% sure we know very little about how that part of b

It's probably just very rough "resemblance" :D It is said CNNs were "inspired" by visual field maps; I am 100% sure we know very little about how that part of brain works and maybe somebody just took a look at main/thickest connections between neurons there and tried to assemble them in a NN to see if it helps.