NNs aren't generative causal structural models of reality they are models parameterised by pixels, not by jawlines to mistake one for the other is to mistake

NNs aren't generative causal structural models of reality they are models parameterised by pixels, not by jawlines to mistake one for the other is to mistake and misunderstand intelligence we are not in a humean nightmare of sensory input -- we have bodies which have causal contact with reality, and from these bodies we have built a structural understanding of reality our perception applies this structure to our "sensory input" -- thinking doesnt terminate in the visual cortext, that is where it begins by the time we are seeing we are seeing vastly more than is present on our retina