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My favourite way of looking at it is to imagine neurons in a neural net as analogue nand-gates.

The logic within a computer processor is made entirely with nand-gates, and a processor is able to compute any function. Nand-gates have 'functional completeness' and can implement any other gate (AND, OR, NOT, NOR), and any other high level construct with those functions.

Similarly, neurons in a neural net can output a 'NAND' function if set up correctly.

This provides a logical inference of computational completeness of neural-nets




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