An interesting paper is "Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor". The idea is to apply neuroscience-style analysis to the 6502 processor running pro

An interesting paper is "Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor". The idea is to apply neuroscience-style analysis to the 6502 processor running programs such as Space Invaders and see if you can find out anything interesting about the processor. They tried a bunch of different approaches which gave a bunch of data but essentially nothing useful about the processor's structure or organization. The point is that if these techniques are useless for figuring out something simple and structured like the 6502, they're unlikely to give useful information about the brain. https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005268 https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo... (Click "download PDF", it's open access.)