Well, a computer model is “literally” transparent in the sense that you can see everything, which means the only difficulty is only in understanding what it means. So the part where you spend 5 million dollars on a PET scanner doesn’t exist for ANNs, and in that sense you can analyze them for “free”.
If the understanding part is sufficiently difficult… which it sure seems to be… then this doesn’t really help, but it is a coherent conceptual difference.
Well, a computer model is “literally” transparent in the sense that you can see everything, which means the only difficulty is only in understanding what it means. So the part where you spend 5 million dollars on a PET scanner doesn’t exist for ANNs, and in that sense you can analyze them for “free”.
If the understanding part is sufficiently difficult… which it sure seems to be… then this doesn’t really help, but it is a coherent conceptual difference.