If the goal is to learn about how thinking works, and maybe find ways to adapt specific methods to software problems, simulating brains makes a lot of sense, of

If the goal is to learn about how thinking works, and maybe find ways to adapt specific methods to software problems, simulating brains makes a lot of sense, of course. But it bewilders me how so many people see the "holy grail" in simulating whole human brains. Two things: 1. Human brains are extraordinarily power efficient - I don't think we can beat them anytime soon, as long as we are power constrained. I believe the difference in efficiency for tasks the human brain is good at (such as visual pattern recognition) is a significant number of orders of magnitude. 2. Computers are at their best when they complement us, when they solve tasks the human brain is NOT good at.