Correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't matter how complex the simulation is if there is simply not enough underlying data? As far as I understand, we simply do not understand neuron activity at a low level enough to make such a thing feasible.
> As far as I understand, we simply do not understand neuron activity at
> a low level enough to make such a thing feasible.
I would tend to disagree. For example as recently as ten years ago everybody knew that most of the computation was implicit in the neural connectivity of the synapses. We now know that there is significant computation within individual neurons - in the dendrites of all things (previously thought to be pretty much passive carriers of output from other cells - just wires basically).
(See http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.neuro.2... for example).
Go look at the neurophysiology journals - people don't seem having problems finding new things to talk about ;-)
Also, thanks for the paper. do you have others.