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It would be neat, and perhaps useful as a diagnostic tool (for troubleshooting the real thing) but I'm not sure how emulating the brain has any practical applic
by jasongullickson 15y ago
It would be neat, and perhaps useful as a diagnostic tool (for troubleshooting the real thing) but I'm not sure how emulating the brain has any practical application (they are fairly common and inexpensive to acquire through natural means).
I'm not saying I wouldn't love to burn billions of OPM building one, but then again practicality is rarely a requirement for me personally.
- ignifero 15y agoIt's still extremely difficult to observe network activity in vivo. Even the most sophisticated methods can only observe tiny fractions and only a single property of neurons at a time. A large scale in silico network makes it trivial to tinker with properties of cells and neurotransmitters and observe how the activity of the network changes