Simulated Electronic Brain: "It's the neuronal equivalent of a Mexican wave"

I know about "The Wave" but I've never heard of "The Mexican Wave."

Regardless, guys in white lab coats are racing towards the vanguard to simulate human consciousness, starting by connecting a petri dish filled with rat brains to a super computer.

To wit:

"You can't assemble ever larger data fields and shake it and say, 'Ah, that's how consciousness emerges.'"

Oh snap! Dr. Markham of IBM just got totally faced by Dr. Koch of the California Institute of Technology. Hot scientist-on-scientist hairpulling ensues.

I'm not too worried about this...unless we found a way to connect a virtual, self-aware neural being to some kind of flesh eating cyborg. But that will never happen.