ciphergoth comments on Why I Moved from AI to Neuroscience, or: Uploading Worms - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ciphergoth 14 April 2012 06:16:49AM 3 points [-]

I'd heard it said that the best human simulators required something like one laptop per neuron - I take it this is because cerebral cortex neurons are more demanding than any C. elegans neuron?

Comment author: davidad 14 April 2012 12:20:03PM 5 points [-]

Right -- some cortical neurons have 10,000 synapses, while the entire C. elegans nervous system has less than 8,000.