Some of the most exciting endeavors in neuroscience right now are trying to move beyond reductionism, says Jonah Lehrer, an editor at large for Seed magazine.

The Blue Brain Project, for example, a collaboration between the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne, Switzerland, and IBM, is in the process of constructing a biologically accurate model of the brain that can be used to simulate experience on a supercomputer.