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"Human brain is too big to be understood with current technology, that's why scientists use simpler organisms to study brain. Flatworm's brain has 52 neurons. W
by dvh 2y ago
"Human brain is too big to be understood with current technology, that's why scientists use simpler organisms to study brain. Flatworm's brain has 52 neurons. We have no idea how it works."
I've read this few years ago, how far we've come?
- xkcd-sucks 2y agoJust for cultural reasons, a roundworm's brain with 302 neurons (each one always in the same place spatially and topologically I might add) is likely better understood. And we don't have a great idea of how it works. But the OpenWorm simulation project seems to have current development https://github.com/orgs/openworm/repositories https://github.com/orgs/openworm/repositories