Your thought experiment is not equivalent to that described here as it does not have a similar complexity of interaction between actors -- in fact, it has no in

Your thought experiment is not equivalent to that described here as it does not have a similar complexity of interaction between actors -- in fact, it has no interaction between actors. Your use of neural nets is also something of a red herring: you would have just as good a counter-example with two passive devices giving the same output on the same inputs.