But while the venture is generating knowledge about how to
mathematically model some parts of the brain's circuitry, critics say the simulation can do very little that is useful or helps us understand how the brain actually works.
This applies if the pieces are
parts of the global temperature and the whole is the global mean, or if the
parts are individual
models and the whole is all
models thrown together (
mathematically)-- the latter being especially specious in my mind.