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“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.”

Maybe AI can though

Asking AI to map human brains...what could possibly go wrong?

Do we need to image all 86 billion? A sampling of cells throughout the brain and a simulation of a cell such that we can figure out how 1 fertilized egg can become 86 billion neurons and change. We can throw compute power at that, we don't really have brains to throw at the problem.

The sell with this kind of research is that doing it will lead to order of magnitude gains in complexity - compare the time it took to sequence the first fruit fly genome with the time it takes today

More like totally impractical for living specimens that you want to continue living meaningfully.

Yep, this is already happening. I think it’s called ‘automatic segmentation’.