>...if you take a creature apart to try to figure out how it works, it
>very quickly stops working.)

Sort of the point of so doing, no?

Sounds like you want to be in either programming or a neurology-related field -- which latter is a subset of the former if you think about it right. *Studying* brains is by definition recursive -- or if it's not, please let me know what you're thinking that with.

best,

Joel