I could hardly contrast the operations of a NN to those of the human mind because we most definitely don't understand the later. I have already described apparent properties of human minds that NN and SVN definitely don't have. But I'll repeat and expand:

The artificially constructed intelligence works whether or not we understand how

The operation of human intelligence is very dependent on the fact that we human have operational understanding of each other's mental processes. Moreover, it is well known that human beings process language and can re-evaluate past experience in light of present understand.

Oppositely, we know enough about the properties of the various non-linear recognizers to know that constructs can't do and won't ever be able to do these things.