The brain is heterogenous in ways that a neural network needn’t be. Certain brain regions definitely perform certain functions, certain regions are hardwired to

The brain is heterogenous in ways that a neural network needn’t be. Certain brain regions definitely perform certain functions, certain regions are hardwired to other regions. You can chop out a chunk of a person’s brain and they’ll be completely unable to do certain things. Afaik the properties you’re referring to on AlexNet (the network trained to perform on Image Net) have to do with the nature of repeated convolution operations which, while interesting, is not as deeply insightful as I believe the article is aiming for.