In the context of such great complexity, it is possible that the only practical way to understand the real system is to build a working model, from the sensors inward, building on our newly enabled ability to visualize the complexity of the system as we advance into it. Such an approach could be called reverse-engineering of the brain…. Note that I am not advocating a blind copying of structures whose purpose we don’t understand, like the legendary Icarus who naively attempted to build wings out of feathers and wax. Rather, I am advocating that we respect the complexity and richness that is
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