I want to second the 'extremely basic' part. But, yes, it is biomimicry. Computer scientists looked at actual neuronal networks in animals, and said 'let's try

I want to second the 'extremely basic' part. But, yes, it is biomimicry. Computer scientists looked at actual neuronal networks in animals, and said 'let's try to do some extremely simplified version of that' and that is how we got "neuronal networks" (bad name, but what we gonna do).