jkaufman comments on Whole Brain Emulation: Looking At Progress On C. elgans - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jkaufman 30 October 2011 03:05:35AM 5 points [-]

The oregon one looks to me like it was about emulation: each of the 302 neurons will be implemented according to available anatomical and physiological data.

The rome one I think you may be right.

Is the nematode too small to measure whether synapses are exciting on inhibiting?

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 30 October 2011 03:14:30AM 2 points [-]

I was basing my judgement on the Oregon papers. I suppose that there may be emulation attempts lurking behind other non-emulation papers.

Comment author: jkaufman 30 October 2011 03:54:00AM 1 point [-]

It's also possible they only proposed to do emulation, but never got funded.