>> Heh. I'm sure I'm also not the first to suspect that "if brains were 
>> simple enough to understand, we would be too simple to understand them".
> 
> Indeed. An analogy I've heard as to researching what goes on in the 
> brain is that you've one person monitoring an enormous bank of dials and 
> another person in a pitch-black room with all the controlling machinery 
> occasionally prodding something and shouting back "What did that do?"

Somebody suggested that operating a particle accelerator is like trying 
to figure out how a mechanical clock works by smashing two clocks 
together and measuring the weight of the shrapnel...

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