On Tuesday 13 November 2007 09:11, Richard Loosemore wrote: > This is the whole brain emulation approach, I guess (my previous > comments were about evolution of brains rather than neural level > duplication).
Ah, you are right. But this too is an interesting topic. I think that the order of magnitudes for whole brain emulation, connectome, and similar evolutionary methods, are roughly the same, but I haven't done any calculations. > It seems quite possible that what we need is a detailed map of every > synapse, exact layout of dendritic tree structures, detailed > knowledge of the dynamics of these things (they change rapidly) AND > wiring between every single neuron. Hm. It would seem that we could have some groups focusing on neurons, another on types of neurons, another on dendritic tree structures, some more on the abstractions of dendritic trees, etc. in an up-*and*-down propagation hierarchy so that the abstract processes of the brain are studied just as well as the "in-betweens" of brain architecture. > I think that if they did the whole project at that level of detail it > would amount to a possibly interesting hint at some of the wiring, of > peripheral interest to people doing work at the cognitive system > level. But that is all. You see no more possible value of such a project? - Bryan ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=64757679-f3c1ec
