Reminds me of The tale of the neuroscientists and the computer: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.783.6101&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://cite

Reminds me of The tale of the neuroscientists and the computer: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.783.6101&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.783... Seems like these researchers are using techniques similar to what is used in neuroscience. Effectively, poke it with a stick and see. Of course, having perfect access to each neuron is a huge advantage over neurological research, but overall this still feels backwards. BTW, neuroscientists did get perfect access to each neuron in some simpler organisms (c. elegans) and as far as I know we learned relatively little from that experiment. Don't get me wrong, in biology it's fascinating and groundbreaking research. But in computer science we ought to do better.