Perhaps a problem is that we're trying to understand brains using (our) brains. And if our brains were powerful enough to do that, then maybe they'd be too hard

Perhaps a problem is that we're trying to understand brains using (our) brains. And if our brains were powerful enough to do that, then maybe they'd be too hard for us to understand. Obviously I'm equating "power" with comprehensibility. and that's probaly not completely valid. But I wonder if there's still some truth in it. Also, while we can use abstraction to understand complex things, brains seeem to be such a mess of evolutionary shortcuts and cludges that I'm not sure how far abstraction gets us. Just musings.