[vikramkr]

That's a really weird way of thinking about it. "We discovered this awesome thing, but will the establishment take us seriously and do all the work to prove this?" He's not some independent quick- he's at Columbia university. How hard is it to message someone in the neuro department there and set up a collaboration? If the brain works this way, there'll be falsifiable aspects of the hypothesis you can identify to then collaborate with someone who knows what they're doing to design an experiment to look into it. It's not like neuro is one of those underfunded fields where itll be so difficult to get anything done. It and oncology are the star fields right now where all the cool kids (and grant funding) are...