[randcraw]

No, I don't think so. In the abstract the authors propose that ANNs may be useful to model the brain in three ways: 1) objective functions (brain-mediated physiological outcomes), 2) learning rules (how patterns are recognized and knowledge is gained), and 3) 'architectures' (which I assume to mean patterns of neural wiring and how info flows).

They are NOT proposing that neural nets architectures are analogous to brain architectures. I'm guessing their focus is on the lowest level activities in simple brains, perhaps afferent/efferent sensory perception, metabolic and physiological regulatory control -- the kind of things instrumented in worms like C. Elegans.

[kristjankalm]

> I'm guessing their focus is on the lowest level activities in simple brains, perhaps afferent/efferent sensory perception, metabolic and physiological regulatory control -- the kind of things instrumented in worms like C. Elegans.

could be but then most of the authors of the paper work in human cognition so I'm slightly skepical that their focus is going to be at the level of cellular biology

[randcraw]

Yeah, it's be nice if they offered an illustration of how they'd approach an amenable problem.