On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]> wrote: > Matt, Do you have any statistics about how the complexity of the brain > evolves with the complexity of the body?
It is kind of hard to say how many genes contribute to brain development and how many contribute to development of the rest of the body. But it doesn't matter. To do what machines do, you need both a brain and a body, or something of equivalent complexity. > And also - care to put an estimate on the relative chances of starting to > emulate a worm with 300 neurons vs a human with billions? C. elegans is one of the most intensely studied organisms in biology. Every synapse in every one of its 302 neurons has been mapped. And yet we still don't completely understand its behavior. -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
