Comment Re:"No idea how... the brain works" (Score 1) 230
Yes, but so what? Mapping function is still a significant advance - considerably distinct from your initial claims (that bothered me so much) that we have no idea how the brain works. This is laying the groundwork for other research and other methods.
Our imaging is not generally "thermal", and we have a variety of techniques, some of which have fantastic temporal resolution (at the expense of other things) and are close to "logic tracing", like single-cell recording. It's more limited though because neurons are different connectionwise from the chips we build.
Most of the research I've done is fMRI-based (NMR is just another name for MRI, it's weird to refer to them as separate things).