Is this "brain-like" in any functional way, or "brain-like" in the same way that a tall rectangle is "door-like" even if it doesn't share any functions with a door?

I know quite a bit about machine learning, but very little to nothing about neuroscience and human cognition, so I am curious how an expert (that didn't work on the paper) would describe it.

(Forgive me for the pre-emptive negativity but I am so utterly exhausted by dishonest comparisons to sapient thought in the field of artificial intelligence that it has nearly drained me of the incredible amount of enthusiasm I used to carry for it.)