The analogy stems from the notion that neural nets are "grown" rather than "engineered". Chris Olah has an old, but good post with some specific examples: https

The analogy stems from the notion that neural nets are "grown" rather than "engineered". Chris Olah has an old, but good post with some specific examples: https://colah.github.io/notes/bio-analogies/ https://colah.github.io/notes/bio-analogies/