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Have we made any fundamental progress in understanding how the human brain works in the last 20 years? 50?
by HyperSane 3y ago
Have we made any fundamental progress in understanding how the human brain works in the last 20 years? 50?
- famouswaffles 3y agoWe've made pretty good progress. But the same problem that plagues explainabilty of ANN's rears its ugly head in neuroscience. Low level descriptions provide shockingly little insight into high level behavior.
- Blammar 3y agoIssue there is the ability to trace out the brain networks accurately. We're getting closer. Once we're in the ~0.5 micron scanning range, things will get VERY interesting. I believe we've already mapped some invertebrate brain, maybe 250 neurons.
- andrewflnr 3y agoYes, but also your original question was about how much people care, so questioning the amount of progress is at best a weird tangent.
- HyperSane 3y agoI am genuinely curious. It doesn't seem like we have made the slightest progress in truly explaining how the human brain works or why we are sentient and self-aware.