Ah, but this point has yet to be proved to even a small degree. Neural models of very simple organisms do tend to show that adequate connectome models appear t

Ah, but this point has yet to be proved to even a small degree. Neural models of very simple organisms do tend to show that adequate connectome models appear to be enough to produce similar behaviors, but we know for a fact that there's a ton of biochemistry going on in the brain that we will not be able to replicate with just the connectome. If I were a betting person, I would wager that the connectome is enough to get something like intelligence, but that without the biochemistry the entire system is unstable in some way. The chemistry that we see in the brain is far more complicated than what would be required to minimally sustain the cells. There's a reason all of this chemistry is going on, and unfortunately I think we're going to find that intelligence just cannot exist as we know it without the chemistry. If that's true, then we're talking hundreds of years before we have computers powerful enough to model the chemistry at the requisite level.