I disagree, fundamentally understanding what neural nets are from any angle might be useful to debug them better.
I do agree with that learning happens differently in the human brain. Your comment points out that humans sub-consciously cluster a lot of things, and do a lot of other things at the same time (e.g. you also mention reinforcement training) in order to make sense of the world.
If only children between 0 and 3 would be self-aware enough of what they're going through, would've made this question so much more easy to answer. I wonder whether their form of learning and our form of learning is the same, I don't think so (pruning and all that).
I would say that we were too eager to jump on "Learning" term. It implies that those things are somehow close to us, humans. In reality NN don't learn anything, it is just a optimization problem on the simplified model. And all the issue with them just proves that we are mostly brute-forcing it.
I do agree with that learning happens differently in the human brain. Your comment points out that humans sub-consciously cluster a lot of things, and do a lot of other things at the same time (e.g. you also mention reinforcement training) in order to make sense of the world.
If only children between 0 and 3 would be self-aware enough of what they're going through, would've made this question so much more easy to answer. I wonder whether their form of learning and our form of learning is the same, I don't think so (pruning and all that).