Your leap from DNNs to brains and &quot;AI&quot; is unjustified. Our brain does not work like a DNN (AFAWK), and we don&#x27;t know whether DNNs are even the beginning of the path that would lead us to &quot;true&quot; AI some day. So I wouldn&#x27;t try projecting anything from this result to our brains (which, BTW, are already known to be susceptible to illusions, but we don&#x27;t know whether that mechanism is the same) or to some hypothetical future AI which we know nothing about.