Testable, indeed, but always from an observation standpoint to which can be referenced to reproduce these tests (=consistency). Since an absolute, grand unifying, written-in-stone standpoint does not exist -ie human observation is limited by its senses- I will gladly accept (a tiny bit) of herd behaviour around a mystical energy pool that linguistically is referred to as God.
The bloody rooted "Christendom" led by one (male) pope, the tribal herd behaviour of Muslim (tribalism being exactly what the Prophet tried to fight by unifying under Allah (= Arab for God)), the predecessor Bhudism with its way to enlightenment and Hinduism before Bhudism with Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva as a trimurti around the energy pool and the mythical tales even before that should instigate a critical stance to what happens around you (=observation).
Religion so wants to let you believe in its holy guiding lines to live by, it should put a healthy bloke on his "qui vive" (a gallicism in Flemish as a way of referring to extreme alert behaviour).
This "qui vive" is a great departure point for science.

I have etchings made by Tolkien with subjects of his writings: do I have to pay copyright to these "tangible" products?
Tolkien was a lousy graphic artist...

otherwise stick to adjectives "feely" , "touchy" and indeed "shitty" for the tech you were referring to.

"the catapultist empathic capacity for the decapitated capitalist was the capitulation of the californicated cataclysm"

You can also graciously quote Margaret Thatcher "that the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money".

1) wood: Napoleon had all the trees he ever wanted - but he could not transport them. I should be looking up the demographics of France at the time because I remember men were so massively recruited in the army that there was no industry. 2) In Belgium we were very much fans of Motown stars - look up Natalia, she even tours with Pointer Sisters. We are that American.

Battle of Trafalgar?
Did you know that Napoleon did not even have enough wood to build a worthy fleet?
Oh, and if you are French...I am aware that general Moreau is perceived as a traitor by them.
This must be Slashdot where you get modded higher when you show the world you have no clue about what you are talking.
As a Belgian rat the only chest-thumping going on around here is me letting the world know that I am informed about latin and germanic history.
You know Belgium - the little American colony? As long as Atomic Bitchwax plays gigs here, I for one welcome my American Overlords.

Rule 0 by Jean Victor Marie Moreau: "Don't invade British Islands".
The letter with this piece of advice was not handed over to Napoleon. Other generals eventually persuaded Napoleon it would be a bad plan.

The fastest way to know if you can trust someone, is to trust someone.

...is good enough for me. I will not get any more explicit than that.

computer analogy: computer without input/output is no fun.
Peripheral nervous system is i/o with some southbridges (ganglia) here and there.
PNS gives:
1) Input to Central Nervous System and Autonomous System
2) Output from CNS to muscles and Autonomous System to fight/flight, digestion, defecation...
Oh and bus speed is faster in vertebrates through Schwann cells around neurons - but invertebrates make up with enormous long cells.

I think you are correct that this kit has value for neuroscientists.
However these debates also need to shed light on an evolutionary pathway of the nervous system.
Nerves are important for all organisms with heterotrophic food pattern - it gives them an incentive to react on a changing environment.
In the evolutionary sense our nervous system is very comparable to that of a cockroach having a ventral and dorsal nerve string with some ganglia (group of nerve cells) strewn along those strings, and one ganglion that is very intricate - the central processing unit - the brain.
Functional grouping of the nervous system:
1) Central Nervous System (CNS) bunches the inputs (afferent part of Peripheral Nervous system (PNS)) and gives output (through efferent part of PNS) to muscles
2) Autonomous input/output part of PNS helps for eg fight or flight, digestion, defecation...no CNS involved although CNS does record problems
Since pain is an input related part we do have an important clue that invertebrates can have this stimulation.

Error: False dichotomy "faith"/"knowledge"
All knowledge is limited by observation.
My wife and I are both engineers and religious.
We give a place to inaccuracy of observation. In this place resides our faith.
We can face the strangeness of the explanation that this faith is also fundamental to giving a place:
1) to the remembrance of dear ones that have past away
2) notions of guilt, repentance and mercy
3) to the collection of stories of the Old Testament - not always taking it literally
4) yeah, even miracles of Jesus and the crazy Johannes with his book of revelations
Let's just say we open our ears (and our heart) to religious stories - also Brahman surrounded by Trimurti, path to enlightenment of Buddha.

My Bulgarian Karate teacher has spent years in the USA and now lives in Belgium.
When he visits his mother in Sofia he rotates his head when saying yes or no, having difficulty of conforming to two different sets of agreement.