The Effects of Modifying a Neural Net on the Brain

We can think of what we're doing as kind of artificial neuroscience, proving not actual human brains, but neural net analogs of them. For example, we'll often be knocking out particular parts of our neural net brain a little like how injuries like strokes can knock out parts of a human brain. And the result is that we can begin to build up intuition about what the worlds of different and alien minds can be like.