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Fly brain sheds light on human thought process
(www.bbc.com)
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So this is basically a physical map of the cells and their interconnections. We also know quite a lot about how the individual cells function.
So... if we simulated the behavior of all those cells and connected them as described by this map, and basically just turned it on... would it behave like a fly? Would it respond to stimuli as if it were a fly?
The computer needed for that would probably be the size of a building and eat electricity like candy, but it'd be interesting - the functional brain of a living creature reproduced in software.
Your last point makes me think of the picture of that 2MB hard drive from yesteryear. That black and white one where they are getting the massive thing (bigger than my fridge freezer) onto a truck, if I'm remembering right.
Imagine if the computers needed, in a couple decades, will be much smaller and capable.