"I started to just get really... bothered by the fact that some of the best tools for human neuroscience are still just language," he says. "It feels like we're in the Babylonian era of neuroscience, it feels like we are the astronomers from 1000 AD staring up at the sky and knowing where stars will be, but not why" The brain is a kind of punk of intractable matter that's really difficult to understand,. Of course, one of the more complicated pieces of matter in the universe, but it is still the case that in neuroscience we haven't solved anything."