Perhaps a problem is that we're trying to understand brains uaing brains. And if our brains were powerful enough to do that, then maybe they'd be too hard for us to understand.

Obviously I'm equating "power" with comprehensibility. and that's probaly not completely valid. But I wonder if theres some truth in it.

Also we can use abstraction to understand complex things, but brains seeem to be a mess of evolutionary shortcuts and cludges that I'm not sure how far abstraction gets us.

Just musings.