Where the research is trying to go

I'm really interested in how people think.
We know they use their neurons to think, but there are lots of things we don't know about how the thinking emerges from neurons.
Biology is discovering things, but the scientific community doesn't know a range of things about that emergence.
Simulations are a useful tool to figure that stuff out;
to figure out the quesions to ask.
We did the CABot thing, so we know that neurons are Turing complete.
We did some learning stuff before CABot, and some during.
Still, there are a lot of things we don't know about learning.
We also don't know about neurons and neural models. My approach has been to have a simple model that I add things to (or remove things from) when necessary. More complex models should have all the features the simple model does.
In particular, we don't have a good way for neural circuits to move into new areas.
These simulations also, hopefully, provide a mechanism to moving toward AI by building simulations that are like people.