Possibly the point they're trying to make is similar to this article from a week or so ago about theoretical physics: https://iai.tv/articles/why-physics-has-ma

Possibly the point they're trying to make is similar to this article from a week or so ago about theoretical physics: https://iai.tv/articles/why-physics-has-made-no-progress-in-50-years-auid-1292 https://iai.tv/articles/why-physics-has-made-no-progress-in-... Namely that the field seems to be doubling down on increasingly hard computational problems, with deminishing returns, rather than generating wholly new avenues of exploration or insights. Of course, I've no idea if this is a valid complaint about either neuroscience or theoretical physics.