[JackFr]

This article is a enlightening counterpart to the 'emerging neuroscience' chorus, who would have us believe that a full model of consciousness and the brain is just around the corner. That those trying treat schizophrenia haven't a clue what causes the onset, and why certain drugs are effective tells me that we really are at the stage of the absolutely primitive models of brain activity.

[daughart]

Anyone who says a full model of the brain is right around the corner is either a fool or a charlatan. The BRAIN initiative was a first start to _develop the technologies_ needed to take the measurements that would underly potentially explanatory brain models.

In Conneconomics (http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/001214) we try to estimate the cost and time needed to map the connectome alone (only one component of a holistic brain model).