This is fair, and one should certainly acknowledge the progress we have made as a functionality all its own, but there seems to be something else at work in the deep learning paradigm. I think (ha) we are dipping our toes in the water of intelligence replication, and that deep learning is a very real crystallization of hundreds of years (using Decartes as my x-axis) of scientifically accurate data amalgamation on what it is we are doing when we maintain a thought, so while the Perceptron is definitely the architecture for passing from the realm of information to the realm of data, what fascinates me is the proximity to actual human reasoning that is occurring presently within the 'mind' of, say, Watson, which I have to say is an incredibly providential name given IBM's founder, Sherlock's best bud, and James Watt's influence on electricity.

It's almost as if intelligent design isn't all that far fetched....lol