This is excellent. Since reading https://books.google.de/books/about/Models_of_the_Mind.html?... I've been expecting someone to start looking back into biology to try to move forward. I guess the poster is one of the authors. Kudos!
Indeed. The problem with most AI research today is they simply do trial and error with large amounts of compute. No room for taking inspiration from nature, which is requires more thought and less FLOPS.