[Jun8]

"This model is inspired by the brain," is another red-flag to me.

[bbrtyth]

as were "more powerful than a Turing Machine" and "2^aleph_null possible behaviours" for me

[ppod]

Why? Biologically inspired ANNs have been around since the 50s. What's the problem with trying to model neural computation?

[Jun8]

Because it's such a buzzword and also the things that are used in practice are barely near modeling actual neural computation in the Drosophilia brain, let alone the human one (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=brain-in-a-...).