Is that all humans are? When clockwork was the frontier, people thought the brain was akin to clockwork (which is why the mechanical turk fooled people). By analogy, now that classifiers are the frontier, we think the brain is a classifier. Our model of the mind is whatever the most complex artifact of our era is .
Just to be clear: I do think the brain classifies. But I wonder if it does other operations as well that we don't fully understand.
The mechanical clock or a von-neumann based computer were never as similiar as neural networks.
We can find similiar structures in brain and in neural networks.
The real question is only if the complexity of the structure of the brain is critical and how we can mimik it or if we can make it appear through learning architecture.
Just to be clear: I do think the brain classifies. But I wonder if it does other operations as well that we don't fully understand.