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Models of the human brain would likely be indistinguishable in every way, shape, and form from the real thing. Models that are just a map of connections certai
by joe_the_user 3y ago
Models of the human brain would likely be indistinguishable in every way, shape, and form from the real thing.
Models that are just a map of connections certainly wouldn't indistinguishable from a human brain. Every single one of the trillions of human neurons is a quite complicated object. Neurons communicate with each other in a number of ways and neuroscience isn't even certain that communication methods have been found.
- comfypotato 3y agoThis discussion is in the context of the open worm project. It has successfully modeled the neurons of a nematode such that the organism model functions inside a physics engine as would the real organism. Extending this to humans, the neuron models are good enough. I’ve done enough biomedical engineering research in the neuroscience domain to tell you: the problem is imaging the connections, not modeling the neurons.
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