Previous attempts, dating back a decade, like the Human Brain Project, fell largely flat, despite considerable government funding. But as New Scientist reports, the Jülich researchers think they can push things forward. The idea is to bring together several models of smaller regions of the brain with a supercomputer to run simulations of billions of firing neurons. Even simulations at the scale of a human brain will only teach us so much about how it functions. “Even if we can make simulations of the size of a brain, we can’t make simulations of the brain.”More on brain simulations: People Are Horrified by Lab-Grown Human Brains