Brain Simulation Promised a Decade Ago Hasn't Succeeded

Re:Brain Simulation Promised a Decade Ago Hasn't Succeeded by Dylan16807 on Thursday July 25, 2019 @07:05PM (#20530738)

If any model counts, then I can "simulate a human brain" as a sphere on a stick figure given five minutes in a physics sim.

We need to have some standard, and I would say the bare minimum is modeling each neuron in an ultra-simple way along with the connections between them.

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Re:Brain Simulation Promised a Decade Ago Hasn't Succeeded by Retric on Thursday July 25, 2019 @11:00PM (#20532002)

Depending on what your doing modeling individual nerve cells may be pointless. For example, a stroke simulation may care a lot more about blood flow than communication between nerves.

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Re:Brain Simulation Promised a Decade Ago Hasn't Succeeded by Dylan16807 on Friday July 26, 2019 @03:23AM (#20532991)

It's certainly a useful project but don't call your blood flow simulation or vague activity map "simulating a human brain".

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Re:Brain Simulation Promised a Decade Ago Hasn't Succeeded by dTal on Friday July 26, 2019 @05:11AM (#20533428)

What if it turned out that neurons are highly redundant, and you can very effectively model network activity at a statistical level well above that of the individual neuron?

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