I have a vague impression that I am not crazy to hope for whole primate-brain connectomes in the 2020s and whole human-brain connectomes in the 2030s, if all goes well.
After reading the post “Whole Brain Emulation: No Progress on C. elegans After 10 Years” I was left with the general impression that this stuff is very difficult; but I don’t know the details, and that post talks about simulation given a connectome, not getting a connectome, which maybe then is easier even for a huge primate brain, I guess? And I don’t know what probability you mean with “not crazy”.
I don’t know what probability you mean with “not crazy”
Me neither. I’m not close enough to the technical details to know. I did run that particular sentence by a guy who’s much more involved in the field before I published, and he said it was a good sentence, but only because “not crazy to hope for X” is a pretty weak claim.
Yeah, the C. elegans connectome has been known for a very long time. The thing that’s hard for C. elegans is going from the connectome to WBE. As crazy as it sounds, I think that there are ways in which a human WBE is easier than a C. elegans WBE. I talk about that to some extent here.
After reading the post “Whole Brain Emulation: No Progress on C. elegans After 10 Years” I was left with the general impression that this stuff is very difficult; but I don’t know the details, and that post talks about simulation given a connectome, not getting a connectome, which maybe then is easier even for a huge primate brain, I guess? And I don’t know what probability you mean with “not crazy”.
A market here is thus apposite:
Me neither. I’m not close enough to the technical details to know. I did run that particular sentence by a guy who’s much more involved in the field before I published, and he said it was a good sentence, but only because “not crazy to hope for X” is a pretty weak claim.
Yeah, the C. elegans connectome has been known for a very long time. The thing that’s hard for C. elegans is going from the connectome to WBE. As crazy as it sounds, I think that there are ways in which a human WBE is easier than a C. elegans WBE. I talk about that to some extent here.