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In what sense does it not work?
by mshroyer 5y ago
In what sense does it not work?
- andai 5y agoThe state of the art is described in this blog post (shared by moyix above): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mHqQxwKuzZS69CXX5/whole-brain-emulation-no-progress-on-c-elgans-after-10-years https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mHqQxwKuzZS69CXX5/whole-brai... Basically, while the structure of the network has been known for decades, they don't yet have the technology to figure out how the neurons behave (the weights of the neurons) nor how they learn (changes in the weights), so they can't "upload" data from a real worm.
- omnicognate 5y agoI'm not an expert in anything relevant to this, so this is ill-informed speculation. But isn't referring to not knowing "the weights" (as the article and researchers do) making a rather large assumption about the nature of the problem? It sounds more like the researchers don't know "why the neurons fire when they do", which would leave open the question of whether "weights" is even a sufficient model.
- taneq 5y agoThis is why I roll my eyes when people say we understand the human brain. We don’t even fully understand what individual neurons are doing.