that was an interesting read, thank you

The part where brain and neural net differ is in the learning via backpropagation, that seem to be done different in the brain, as there is no mechanism to go backwards through the network and jiggle the weights.

That aside, they seem to work very similar once they are trained, as the knowledge they are able to extract from data ends up being basically the same that a human would be able to extract. There is surprisingly little weirdness in AI and a surprising amount of human-like capabilities.

people have a definite fear of being defined as machines... not sure why we think were so special..

But you, random stranger on the internet, knows better than the guy that literally works in the field. Got it.