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Re:Can The Human Brain Project be saved, and should it be? by grondilu on Monday February 16, 2015 @02:08PM (#9058565)
> "Would you try to understand the universe by simulating every molecule? What would you have achieved? It’s going to be just as complicated as the real thing and you won’t understand it any better."

I'm pretty sure cosmologists would love to make simulations to a molecular precision. They currently simulate gas clouds with supercomputers in order to study the formation of galaxies and the more precise the better.

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Re:Can The Human Brain Project be saved, and should it be? by TheEzEzz on Monday February 16, 2015 @02:18PM (#9058636)
Absolutely right, simulations are critical in physics, cosmology, and pretty much every hard science. I think the nay-saying in the article is indicative of a larger enmity some academics have towards simulation based science. The harder sciences have mostly come to terms with the contributions simulations can make, but I think it will be sometime before the softer disciplines come around. In the meantime, politics and ad hominems as usual.
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