My interest in Computational Neuroscience and AI started in some of the dissatisfaction I had with Psychology while studying for my BSc. I felt that a lot of the time there wasn't any coherent theory to actually understand the results of the experiments being done and it often seemed like an exercise in collecting more data. Sometimes there would be a 'theory' proposed, but this was just a qualitative expression that could often be twisted to fit the data. The formalism introduced in Computational Neuroscience and AI gave some concrete predictions that could actually be evaluated.
However there have been times while doing my MSc that I feel I'm just playing with properties of matrices, and that there are people out there better suited for doing it, i.e., physicists, mathematicians, etc. Perhaps I'm just making excuses.
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