Superstitious humans never really gave up their believe system that we have souls. Sure, we expanded it to include non-humans, and sure, the age of science compelled people to give it a more secular label ("neurons"), but we're as superstitious as ever. We have entire quasi-religions out there masquerading as lifestyles and "just common sense", and they all rely on the neuron being special.

So it doesn't really matter that technically you are correct.