"I simply don't know of any reason to take this kind of modeling seriously"

HAHAHAHAHA!

Everyone knows that neurons act as simple integrate-and-threshold units with spatial receptive fields, thats all we need to know to explain mind and consciousness! Its just a bunch of stupid processors massively interconnected! No mystery in that! What's the point even trying to think of anything different?

What is really scary is that this ignorant bastard is probably one of the big wheels at the head of one of our prestigeous academic institutions!