Tyrin comments on The Extraordinary Link Between Deep Neural Networks and the Nature of the Universe - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tyrin 25 September 2016 11:50:16PM 0 points [-]

Isn't the idea more that the neural network just learns rough subgraphs of the underlying DAG that captures the causal structure up to quantum detail? Whole-part relationships are such subgraphs: a person being present causes a face to be present, which causes eyes to be present etc.