I was thinking it was more like giving somebody iPhone schematics and die shots of all the chips and then asking them to figure out how Portrait Mode works in the Camera app.
I was thinking it was more like giving somebody iPhone schematics and die shots of all the chips and then asking them to figure out how Portrait Mode works in the Camera app.
It's unlikely that brains have an abstraction layer like that, so work like this is a necessary precondition to understanding the rest of how it works. That actual understanding may be elusive for quite some time to come, but without a connectome, forget it, no change.
Luckily this is science so we can actually find out.
And maybe there’s some data or concept that will one day be discovered that will be the key to unlocking how brains work.
For my analogy, I was thinking more of how the connectome is, like schematics, static and the dynamic part is probably more interesting.