I think that's the idea: to learn about learning about the brain, ha ha.

I figure that the model will be tweaked progressively as the project evolves. The brain may be tricky from a physical (wetware) perspective, but its 'behaviour' leaves far more unanswered questions I think. If all goes as planned, they/we will hopefully be able to run some very effective simulations which will further our understanding of -for one- the natural disbursement of information throughout dense neuro-circuitry. I figure that holographic storage technology is probably going to be incorporated in this project as well. Note that they're not trying to recreate an entire brain. They are tackling the most complex area though. Nothing like this has ever been done before. I'm definitely exited about the possible prospects of this experiment.