Comment by geofft

It sounds like, in this world, a lot of the value of a simulated brain is in the as-yet-indescribable complexity of human cognition. If you debug a brain to remove the parts of it that are uncooperative, you likely have to remove the parts of it that have opinions of any sort about the task on which it's working, which seems like it would defeat the value of using a brain at all. If you're giving a task to a simulated brain, it's because it's beyond the reach of what you can efficiently ask a program to do, and you want the subconscious reactions, development of instinct, and deep unplanned reasoning that you get out of asking an educated and experienced human to think about a task. You can likely tweak a simulated brain into cooperation, sure, but you'd have very few guarantees of not breaking those mechanisms while you're at it.

If you can describe the task to be performed well enough that you don't need the je-ne-sais-quoi of a human brain to perform it, you may as well just have a regular computer program do it. (We already have very efficient systems that involve extracting limited amounts of creativity and insight from human brains and forming them into repeatable tasks that can be run on computers - that's what the entire software industry is about.)