It could be neither here nor there, because a neural network model is not necessarily a statistical engine just as real brains should not be reductively thought

It could be neither here nor there, because a neural network model is not necessarily a statistical engine just as real brains should not be reductively thought of as such. (E.g. The usual argument is that these black boxes were trained on huge samples to optimize a result, I am not persuaded by that line of reasoning.)