while a person is trying to remember a phone number. Neither of these experiments on its own would fully explain how the process of remembering a phone number works.

Even if the technology to map every neuron in the brain in real time were available, and it were known when each neuron fired, it would still be impossible to know how a particular firing of neurons translates into the observed behavior. Thus, an understanding of how these two levels relate is imperative. Francisco Varela, in The