Oh stop already. The original paper for ANN's published by Pitts said they were directly inspired by biological models of neuronal activation functions [1] - hence the name. Yes it's potentially misleading to a non practitioner, but everyone gets so mad about this point unnecessarily at tech writers.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=gJhBBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA209&hl=e...