content: For sure, that's why neural nets are so damn interesting. As a field they're at this junction where they're used to solve practical computing problems, but also in researching organic neurology and philosophy of mind. One of the most compelling lines from the original article to me was: "So here’s one surprise: neural networks that were trained to discriminate between different kinds of images have quite a bit of the information needed to generate images too." That's an awesome insight. Imagination is maybe, to a large degree, a matter of throwing the wetware for recognition into reverse gear.