>>> Implication for neuroscientists proposing to build a WBE (whole brain >>> emulation): the resolution you need may now have to include all the >>> DNA in every neuron. Any bets on when they will have the resolution >>> to do that? >> >> No bets here. But they are proposing that elements are added onto the DNA, >> not that changes are made in arbitrary locations within the DNA, so it's not >> /quite/ as bad as you suggest > > It would be pretty embarrassing for people gearing up for scans with a > limiting resolution at about the size of one neuron, though. IIRC that was > the rough order of magnitude assumed in the proposal I reviewed here > recently.
When I saw Todd Huffman give a presentation on brain imaging aimed toward WBE last year, he was showing images revealing individual proteins expressed around in the brain ... and the challenge was to infer higher-level stuff like synaptic potentiation from this lower-level protein-expression imaging data My recollection of the details is fuzzy, but anyway I'm clear that he and others in that field are working on lower-level imaging as well as neuron-level... ben g ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=120640061-aded06 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com