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"it takes, I think I read 10 ANN nodes to mimic the behavior of one biological neuron"

More like a deep network of 5-8 layers of 256 ANN nodes, according to recent work (turns out lots of computation is happening in the dentrites): 

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-computationally-complex-is-a-single-neuron-20210902/

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Thank you for the link.  Given some neurons have 1000+ inputs and complex timing behavior, this is perfectly reasonable.  

There's a fundamental difficulty with these sorts of attempts to emulate entire nervous systems (which gets exponentially worse as you scale up) that I don't think gets enough attention:  failure of averaging. See this paper on simulating single neurons: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11826077/#:~:text=Averaging%20fails%20because%20the%20maximal,does%20not%20contain%20its%20mean.

The abstract:

"Parameters for models of biological systems are often obtained by averaging over experimental results from a number of different preparations. To explore the va... (read more)