Also, there's plenty of neuroscience that is produced by very serious researchers that have no problems making comparisons between human brain function and statistical models.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_approaches_to_brain_f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding
They're bases for studying the human brain - something which we are very much in our infancy of understanding.
Also, there's plenty of neuroscience that is produced by very serious researchers that have no problems making comparisons between human brain function and statistical models.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_approaches_to_brain_f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding