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b_b  ·  3664 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Michio Kaku’s ‘Future of the Mind’ - NYTimes.com

The mistaken metaphor you quote is sadly all too common in neuroscience. The so called connectome project is a billion dollar joke. I'll write more tonight or tomorrow, when I'm in my home office and can correctly quote some texts I have there, but suffice it to say that people who think the a mind can be reverse engineered are charlatans.





iammyownrushmore  ·  3664 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm definitely interested in your reply, I think the connectome project and many of the futurist-oriented neuroscience pontificators end up writing checks science can't cash.

b_b  ·  3664 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've got something to say specifically on the connectome, but here is a summary of the way I feel about the whole field, generally:

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

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user-inactivated  ·  3664 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Edit: Redaction of previous reply, I think I understand what you were trying to say second read through of part 2 and 3.

user-inactivated  ·  3664 days ago  ·  link  ·  

not meant as a confrontational reply, just curious.

if the brain is made up of matter and follows the same physical laws as the rest of the universe whats to stop it from one day being understood? it certainly isn't likely to happen overnight but couldn’t it be at least conceivable that the connectome project has some potential to lead to further knowledge of and eventual replication of the human brain?

am_Unition  ·  3175 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Solve the Schrodinger Equation for the human brain. We'll consider that "first order". Then do the human body. Then, include the surroundings, and eventually the cosmos.

Good luck.

Snark reply cuz inactivated user. And if you shall find revival, let this snark make thou cometh at me so.