I liken it to current scientists trying to figure out how a modern motherboard or CPU works by sticking oscilloscopes onto individual circuits. Sure, you can g

I liken it to current scientists trying to figure out how a modern motherboard or CPU works by sticking oscilloscopes onto individual circuits. Sure, you can get a readout of the fourier transforms and thus band frequency power of all the little signals going back and forth the little metal circuits and stuff. But it's really a small piece of the puzzle. To wit - a lot of song and dance has been made regarding beta power in the subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson's patients (mostly because it is the only place we are FDA-allowed to go in a live human brain). Some ambitious researchers are claiming beta power is the "pathological signal" of Parkinson's disease...whereas it's more likely it's an epiphenomena of deeper computational issues with a damage basal ganglia circuit'