> the simple fact that any information affects you
Precisely! You got to the very definition of the word "truism". Marxist "laws" were equally cutting-edge, as in "everything changes".
> always affects you
And a butterfly flapping its wings in China affects you in France, doesn't it?
> neural networks as a model
Hint: why do you train neural networks iteratively, with hundreds or thousands of iterations?
> I still read papers on this topic
What prevents you from citing?