Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Brain_Project

Criticism[edit]
An open letter was sent on 7th July 2014 to the European
Commission by 154 European researchers (750 signatures
as of September 3rd, 2014[14]) complaining of an overly
narrow approach which they claim gives a significant risk
that it will fail to meet its goals, and threatening to boycott
the project.[15] Central to this controversy was an internal
dispute about funding for cognitive scientists who study high
level brain functions, such as thought and behaviour. Peter
Dayan, director of computational neuroscience at University
College, London, argues that the goal of a large-scale simulation
of the brain is radically premature.[16] Geoffrey Hinton said
that "[t]he real problem with that project is they have no clue
how to get a large system like that to learn."[17]