  Human brains and bodies are not hardware running software: the hardware is
the software. We reason that because the microscopic physics of
artificial-intelligence hardware and of human biological "hardware" is
distinct, neuromorphic engineers need to be cautious (and yet also creative) in
how we take inspiration from biological intelligence. We should focus primarily
on principles and design ideas that respect -- and embrace -- the underlying
hardware physics of non-biological intelligent systems, rather than abstracting
it away. We see a major role for neuroscience in neuromorphic computing as
identifying the physics-agnostic principles of biological intelligence -- that
is the principles of biological intelligence that can be gainfully adapted and
applied to any physical hardware.
