>created by humans, carefully tokenised, or images, on the one hand; and, on the other hand, the evolutionary forces that operate in the real world, where there are no boundaries between the different sensory stimuli that animal nervous systems must learn to distinguish and manipulate.
You're making a very likely irrelevant distinction for the sake of undermining the parent's argument. If the point is wrong, argue that its wrong. But its certainly not wrong by definition, not in any substantive sense at least.
Yes, curation may be important such that it undermines the analogy between pre-training of a NN and an organism's evolutionary history. But you haven't argued the point.
You're making a very likely irrelevant distinction for the sake of undermining the parent's argument. If the point is wrong, argue that its wrong. But its certainly not wrong by definition, not in any substantive sense at least.
Yes, curation may be important such that it undermines the analogy between pre-training of a NN and an organism's evolutionary history. But you haven't argued the point.