Does the brain model the world?

Does the brain model the world?

Yes, it does. Because it can imagine invisible facets of the objects.

Do Neural Networks and Deep Learning model the world?

No, they do not. Because they do not care about invisible facets of the objects.

There are some other fallacies connected to brain modeling. For example, the disputes about consciousness: We Know Exactly What Consciousness Is — Don’t Let Anyone Tell You Otherwise | by Casper Skern Wilstrup | Machine Consciousness | Medium .

But there is a substantial difference between the model of the ambient environment which is developed under the skull bone in the brain, on one hand, and the models developed as a common sense or scientific models among people’s interaction, on the other hand. The first kind of model is developed on the base of individual sensation, vision, etc., where the data go directly from the natural environment. This kind of experience is intrinsically connected to consciousness, actions, and feelings.

The second kind of models is based on information that one person translates to another via speech, symbols, books, theses, computer codes, etc., and there are no connections to consciousness from such models. That is just an abstract expression of someone’s experience gained from the data obtained directly from the natural environment.

Thus, the attempts to find some consciousness within information symbols only seems futile.