Except there were literally only two outcomes in the election. There were literally no alternative outcomes.
This was completely bound and a gun to your head. Absolutely no other possible outcome. Choose one option or both die anyway.
America chose both dying anyway.
It is conceptually the same thing. A series of interconnected neurons with a firing threshold and weighted connections.
The simplification comes with how the information is transmitted and how our brain learns.
Many functions in the human body rely on quantum mechanical effects to function correctly. So to simulate it properly each connection really needs to be its own super computer.
But it has been shown to be able to encode information in a similar way. The learning the part is not even close.