No, it's nonsense.
The name is inspired by the biology. They are nothing like at all in operation. It's AI industry propaganda.
We don't really know how vision exactly works. It's nothing like a camera feeding a computer. A computer neural network is a kind of database structure. It doesn't work at all like biological systems which are still poorly understood. It's just "AI industry" jargon.
Go do a real course in programming rather than reading industry sponsored articles. The Register
https://www.theregister.com/ is more reliable than many other sources and it's only a tech news site.