Yeah, it's called a brain.
What exactly is it about psychology that strikes you as being, ahem, "for pussies?" (Ironically, many of the people currently studying artificial neural networks received their Ph.D.s in cognitive psychology.)
Everybody knows it isn't a 'proper' science. There's so many unfalsifiable or even meaningless models... there's just no way you can find out how the brain works via studying a tiny subset of its actions and reactions, and in an unthorough way.
And if I could point out; none of these people have so far made any progress in the field.
The only way to do it is to do it properly. It's exactly the same problem that was faced with the 'what is a gene and how does a gene work' issue. There's no way you can work it out by studying entire organisms. To explain it properly, you have to work out what the actual code is, and how it works. That has now been achieved, and the benefits to science have been huge.
Did you say you were a psychologist, by the way? If so I'm not trying to be rude... just honest. 
And if I'm just being ignorant perhaps you could clear some stuff up.
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