@Russell. There is no impressive result at all. You don't even know what exactly they did. You just read some hyped news article. Trololol.
On Tuesday 15 October 2024 at 04:24:34 UTC+3 Russell Standish wrote: > Impressive result indeed. I can see this as a logical extension of > work done in the '90s where crayfish brains were plasticised, sliced > then imaged under electron microscopes, giving a 3D dataset of the > brain structure. Nowhere near as detailed as this, though. > > Next step is to calculate the complexity of the drosophila brain. I did > that a few years back for the C. Elegans brain - although I doubt my > algorithms will be up to snuff, as they tend to be combinatorially > complex - but who knows, I might get lucky. > > Cheers > > On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 02:44:45PM -0400, John Clark wrote: > > A fly has been uploaded. That's the takeaway I got after reading an > article in > > yesterday's issue of the journal Nature. Apparently Sebastian Seung, a > leader > > of the project, had a similar thought because he is quoted as saying: > > > > “Mind uploading has been science fiction, but now mind uploading — for > a fly, > > at least — is becoming mainstream science.” > > > > They put the brain of an adult fly in a bath of liquid plastic which soon > > hardened into a solid block. Then they sliced the entire brain into > 7,050 super > > thin slices and took 21 million high resolution pictures of it. Then > they wrote > > a computer program that could look at all those pictures and trace which > neuron > > was connected to which; from that they were able to conclude that the > fly brain > > had 139,255 neurons and 50 million connections. Pretty impressive > considering > > that previously the best neuronal map was that of a worm that only had > 385 > > neurons, but that's not even the best part. They used the information > about how > > those 139,255 neurons were wired up to make a simulated fly brain on a > > computer, and they obtained typical fly behavior! Sebastian Seung said: > > > > "We show that activation of sugar-sensing or water-sensing gustatory > neurons in > > the computational model accurately predicts neurons that respond to > tastes and > > are required for feeding initiation. In addition, using the model to > activate > > neurons in the feeding region of the Drosophila brain predicts those that > > elicit motor neuron firing. Our results demonstrate that modelling brain > > circuits using only synapse-level connectivity and predicted > neurotransmitter > > identity generates experimentally testable hypotheses and can describe > complete > > sensorimotor transformations." > > > > The researchers say their next target is uploading a mouse brain which > has > > about 1000 times more neurons than a fly brain. > > > > A Drosophila computational brain model reveals sensorimotor processing > > > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > > vo3 > > > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Everything List" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email > > to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ > > everything-list/ > > CAJPayv0cq_b1%3DxapUvBN7DUtaCQELWAvNmMAL9k16w1HZ2qK%3DQ%40mail.gmail.com > . > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] > http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/edce277e-e09f-43d2-9e74-2c3169370093n%40googlegroups.com.
