One thing that hasn't been mentioned in the article is how well the smaller brain models performed compared to the real thing - which is kind of crucial to our

One thing that hasn't been mentioned in the article is how well the smaller brain models performed compared to the real thing - which is kind of crucial to our understanding of many of the encapsulated questions and assumptions. Even something relatively simple like "We managed to convert the optic nerve to a signal and strobed the poor mouse into a seizure - would the model mouse brain also show similiar brain reactions?" If you have the neurons mapped but not the biochemistry the divergence could be very telling even if countless "emulation bugs" occur from the implicit assumptions that lead to the states.