[andyxor]

That’s correct understanding as of 1943 when the “artificial neural network“ model your professor is teaching was developed.

There is a whole lot of new knowledge on how live neurons and networks of neurons work that had been collected in the last 75 years in the neuroscience domain but it’s mostly ignored by computer scientists.

[qeternity]

I’d be really interested in learning more about this. Can you point me to some easily grokable literature?

[andyxor]

https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Computations-Edmund-T-Rolls/dp/...