In the current March 10 2023 issue of the journal Science there is a report that for the first time the entire connectome of an insect brain (the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster) has been found, all 3,016 neurons and 548,000 synapses of it, they also found there were 93 different types of neurons. That connectome is an order of magnitude larger than has been possible to find before. One of the authors of the article says "*It’s interesting that the computer-science field is converging onto what evolution has discovered*", he said that because it turns out that 41% of the fly brain's neurons are in recurrent loops that provide feedback to other neurons that are upstream of the data processing path, and that's just what we see in modern AIs like ChatGPT. He also said that the method they used was slow and very labor intensive but he also said “*Now that we have a reference brain one can now use it to train machine learning to do it much faster*”. They also found that "*Although the details of brain organization differ across the animal kingdom, many circuit architectures are conserved *".The implications this has for human uploading are obvious.
The connectome of an insect brain <https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add9330> John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> iyu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2WUBR%2BuQE1dY5Pc%2B436RSmS9bzZCUYdh0LXubENwopxA%40mail.gmail.com.
