Year: 2022

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"WIRING DIAGRAMS link lifestyle to brain function. Human Connectome Project finds surprising correlations between brain architecture and behavioural or demographic influences. "You can distinguish people with successful traits and successful lives versus those who are not so successful." https://lnkd.in/deBiskD View in LinkedIn

STEADY PROGRESS. "Few advances in neuroscience could have as much impact as a precise global description of human brain connectivity (connectome) and its variability. Understanding this connectome in detail will provide insights into fundamental neural processes and intractable neuropsychiatric diseases. Currently, the connectome of the mature adult brain is in progress." https://lnkd.in/deQHzwg View in LinkedIn

EXPONENTIAL SPEED. "When he started five years ago...the technique was so slow it would have taken several centuries to generate images for a cubic millimeter of brain—about one thousandth the size of a mouse brain and a millionth the size of a human one. Now Lichtman can do a cubic millimeter every couple of years. This summer, a new microscope will reduce the timeline to a couple of weeks. An army of such machines, he says, could put an entire human brain within reach." http://www.popsci.com/article/science/neuroscientist-who-wants-upload-humanity-computer View in LinkedIn

5,000 TIMES REDUCTION. Going from projected "several centuries" to "several weeks" of analytic time in the human Connectome Project is completely analogous to the Human Genome Project, where time and cost to sequence DNA plummeted as technology advanced. It also underscores the absolute unreliability of technology forecasts.” http://www.popsci.com/article/science/neuroscientist-who-wants-upload-humanity-computer View in LinkedIn

GENOME ANALOGY. "The price of sequencing an average human genome has plummeted from about US$10 million to a few thousand dollars in just six years." And soon, it will cost $1,000. https://lnkd.in/dGcvNvY View in LinkedIn

BEATING MOORE'S LAW. "In Silicon Valley, Moore's law seems to stand on equal footing with the natural laws codified by Isaac Newton. Intel co-founder Gordon Moore's iconic observation that computing power tends to double — and that its price therefore halves — every 2 years has held true for nearly 50 years with only minor revision." https://lnkd.in/dGcvNvY View in LinkedIn

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CARBONCOPIES, INC. "A San Francisco inventor has revealed plans for a system to upload his brain to a computer. He hopes to be able to replicate the human brain as a mechanical system. By mapping the brain, reducing its activity to computations, and reproducing those computations in code, Koene argued, humans could live indefinitely, emulated by silicon."When I say emulation, you should think of it, for example, in the same sense as emulating a Macintosh on a PC," a platform-independent code.” (2014). https://lnkd.in/d3gNJBJ View in LinkedIn