> Why would you want to make anything close to the brain? What real scientific or engineering or humanitarian uses does doing that even have? To have models of

> Why would you want to make anything close to the brain? What real scientific or engineering or humanitarian uses does doing that even have? To have models of the human brain that we can poke at and change and tinker with and etc., so that we can get better ideas of how therapy techniques, medications, ... will impact the actual real people that might benefit from them.